Developing countries have strongly supported Kyoto because it commits them to do nothing, at least initially, while getting rich countries to take on legally binding emissions targets.
In Germany, they have been called Generation Maybe, a group who are well educated, highly connected, multilingual, globally minded, with myriad opportunities, but who are so overwhelmed by the possibilities available to them that they commit to nothing.
Others say that meetings and proposal requests commit Xi to nothing, and that any plans he develops will require the agreement of colleagues and party elders.
She spent her early life as an East German in a dictatorship that taught her to trust nobody, to commit to nothing, to be forever unknowable and malleable so as to ride the zeitgeist, no matter where it led or which idiot was in power.
Basically, if you commit to nothing, you'll be distracted by everything.
This system meltdown often causes you to commit to nothing, or make abundant and "off-brand" selections.
It's too early to tell, since Obama committed himself to nothing.
"The Anzus treaty [a security pact between Australia and New Zealand and the United States] commits us to nothing more than consultation … and Australia should be making it known that it is very much disinclined to join any conflict should it break out".
It lets Romney present himself as a man of action, and helps him project an air of — to borrow two of his favorite words — strong leadership, while committing him to nothing at all.
But such a proposition commits us to nothing more than the relevant individuals it applies to (if indeed there are any) and to the significations expressed by its predicates.
