Sentence examples for categorical commitment from inspiring English sources

But he refused to give a categorical commitment to maintaining the current first-past-the-post system.

Malmström warned that limiting the scope of the investor-state dispute settlement (ISDS) service would be difficult to achieve but she gave a categorical commitment that publicly-funded health services would be explicitly excluded from a TTIP agreement.

Throw in Labour's known predilection for top-slicing and the categorical commitment (in an interview on last week's The Media Show on Radio 4) by Jeremy Hunt, the shadow culture secretary, that the Conservatives will abolish the BBC Trust as soon as charter renewal allows, and it looks as if the BBC is in for quite a fight whoever wins.

Asked directly whether he would "avoid launching a tool of censorship and surveillance in China while you are CEO of Google", Pichai trod carefully in his response, avoiding making any such categorical commitment — but saying he would be "very thoughtful" about any relaunch. .

Asked directly whether he would "avoid launching a tool of censorship and surveillance in China while you are CEO of Google", Pichai trod carefully in his response, avoiding making any such categorical commitment — but saying he would be "very thoughtful" about any relaunch.

In this way, Hegel does try to reconcile the need for conceptual elements constitutive of traditional epistemological idealism with (most of) the categorical commitments characteristic of traditional ontological idealism yet in a way that no longer requires the opposition between epistemology and ontology.

"There's no faith tradition that isn't categorical about the commitment to the stranger, the neglected, the rejected," he said.

There is an apparent tension between Mill's commitment to a categorical approach to basic liberties and his defense of utilitarianism.

On this reading, Mill is deriving his conception of liberal rights from a prior commitment to the categorical approach and, in particular, to the harm principle (see Jacobsen 2000 for an alternative reading).

Both Washington and China are steadily upping the stakes in their rivalry as China's provocations of US friends and allies become more flagrant and America's commitments to support them become more categorical.

In this paper, we study and propose a quantum bit commitment (QBC) protocol inspired by the framework of categorical quantum mechanics.