The new year brings a commitment to self-improvement: join a gym, read the Bible, learn Chinese or Arabic — or JavaScript.
Krach, a former investigative reporter with the weekly magazine Der Spiegel, has brought a commitment to investigative work to his current job.
When hostages are taken, U.S. government officials often consider the families and their advocates a distraction; yet such people frequently have resources and networks at hand, and they bring a commitment that is unequalled.
The hope in Athens appeared to be that its capitulation to demands for €13bn (£9.36bn) of public spending cuts and reforms would bring a commitment from Brussels for a third bailout, the promise of debt relief, and crucially for an economy on its knees, a flood of cash into its banking system from the European Central Bank.
"And, she adds, "FitzGerald energized the company and brought a commitment to real change".
What makes Simian Mobile Disco unique is that they've brought a commitment to live performance into the electronic realm.
Writing for SCOTUSblog, the President made clear that he will nominate someone "eminently qualified," who brings "a commitment to impartial justice," and, critically, whose "experience that suggests he or she... grasps the way [the law] affects the daily reality of people's lives in a big, complicated democracy, and in rapidly changing times".
And what I have been learning lately is how very powerful it also is when we don't leave it all behind, when we bring a commitment to better understanding ourselves through meditation right into our ordinary everyday identity and jobs and lives.
There was a sense of defiance to "just keep living with this [LAM]" no matter what challenges the disease brought; a commitment to "finding something you can do that makes you happy and that you feel like you are contributing"; and to "let go a little bit and let people take care of me".
Instead he brought a real commitment that you could bring the feature sensibility to television.
