They claim a commitment to building on the underlying principles of the Global Mining Initiative (GMI) as well as the Ghana Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (GEITI) (Nguyen-Thanh & Schnell, 2009) to contribute projects that yield socio-economic returns to the communities (GCM, 2008a, 2008b).
The Blue Dogs claim a commitment to fiscal responsibility, and boast that they control the House.
They continue to churn out ethnic and racial minorities and women but still claim a commitment to diversity.
Like its competitors – al-Arabiya, al-Jazeera and Alarab – Sky News Arabia claims a commitment to independence and reporting without fear or favour.
Claiming a commitment to multiparty democracy and a mixed economy, the Maoists emerged from the elections in 2008 as the largest party in the assembly a party that now appears to resemble the pragmatic CCP of recent years more closely than it resembles Maoist revolutionaries of the 20th century.
A spokesman for Peter Dutton, who was shadow health minister before the 2013 election and health minister after, referred Guardian Australia to Mirabella's attempts to clarify the claim of a commitment, but did not answer questions about whether Dutton was aware of such a commitment.
The Israeli government clearly has not been a friend of human rights when it comes to the Palestinians, but why is the AAA, given its professed claim of a commitment to the "protection of human rights for people around the world," only singling out Israel?
California Governor Jerry Brown has been even brash enough to take down the state's transparency website and still boldly claim a strong commitment to transparency.
"Didn't you have the skill to explain to parliament that you were still on the UN route?" he asked, questioning Blair about his failure to state publicly what he now claims was a commitment to a second UN resolution.
The problem with these explanations, Elster argues, is that they "postulate a purpose without a purposive actor" (1982, 452), and therefore (he claims) entail a commitment to some form of objective teleology.
In his essay, "Journey to Nonviolence," for example, Martin Luther King Jr. claimed that a commitment to nonviolence required overcoming the "internal violence" of hatred and anger by cultivating love and compassion (King 1986, 46).
