Sentence examples for commit itself as from inspiring English sources

This communication seems to us notable for a characteristically legal disinclination to commit itself as to the virtue of a rival, for its implication that Harvard has finally reached a perch that Yale has long been accustomed to, & for its brilliant failure, while exuding approval, to provide anything that the Harvard Law Record could possibly quote to advantage.

This communication seems to us notable for a characteristically legan, disinclination to commit itself as to the virtues of a rival, for its implication that Harvard has finally reached a perch that Yale has long been accustomed to, and for its failure, while exuding approval, to provide anything that H. L. R. could possibly quote to its advantage.

I would have never been bothered by it". If the diocese were to act on those words, it would commit itself, as an institution of faith, to hold students, parents and school responsible for what happened that day.

During the lead-up to the mass uprising, the KPJ organisation in Herzegovina would not commit itself, as it was waiting for orders from the provincial organisation in Sarajevo, which was expecting direction from the KPJ Central Committee to launch a general uprising across Yugoslavia.

They believe that the consequences are likely to be calamitous unless the industrialized world commits itself, as it did in the Kyoto accord of 1997, to binding reductions in greenhouse gases.

"We want a hudna between the whole Palestinian Authority and Israel, that Israel commits itself to as much as we do," he said.

Washington has probably already committed itself to as much debt reduction as it can credibly promise.

It is not clear when or why America abandoned its notion that China should commit itself to peaceful reunification as a precondition for a presidential visit.

More than half a century later, China now is working to resurrect it as the first major overland trade route since World War II with India, where business leaders, politicians and bureaucrats also are pressing their government to formally commit itself to the road as a link between the world's two most populous nations.

How can it be that television's great purveyor of baronial imagery — the sweeping shots of mist-covered dells and manor houses, the close-ups of blushed cheeks at the ball — had failed to commit itself fully to the novelist as attached to her property fetish as she was to her moral vision of love?

The Arab states' endorsement of the Palestinian move at the UN would have had far greater resonance in Israel had they demanded that the endorsement be conditional upon Hamas permanently renouncing violence and commit itself to a political solution as its counterpart the Palestinian Authority by accepting the Arab Peace Initiative.