Sentence examples for commit themselves in from inspiring English sources

A dad and two mums Save the children Capital in the 21st century Wheel ambition Ed McMiliband No junk The demand side A sure hand at the wheel ReprintsSome fret that this "double majority" requirement, to which the Conservatives and the Liberal Democrats will commit themselves in their manifestos for the general election in May, could split the United Kingdom.

Only three months ago the basic concept of the common market that the six countries (France, Germany, Italy and Benelux should commit themselves in advance to remove internal tariffs over a definite period (say twelve years)—seemed threatened by unacceptable French demands.

In a dissenting opinion in the Supreme Court case last June, Justice David H. Souter wrote, "It is beyond question that Good News intends to use the public school premises not for the mere discussion of a subject from a particular, Christian point of view, but for an evangelical service of worship calling children to commit themselves in an act of Christian conversion".

He said he thought about "members of my own staff who are in incredibly committed monogamous relationships, same-sex relationships, who are raising kids together," and about "those soldiers or airmen or Marines or sailors who are out there fighting on my behalf and yet feel constrained, even now that 'don't ask, don't tell' is gone, because they are not able to commit themselves in a marriage".

There is an additional normative expectation: once representatives commit themselves in public to a given view, they are not supposed to switch to another view unless they can justify such a departure (Elster 1998, 104).As Elster puts it, "public speaking is subject to a consistency constraint.

International lenders are demanding that the party leaders commit themselves in writing to implement the programme of pay and pension cuts, structural and administrative reforms.

Few members are committing themselves in public to the concessions that will be needed.

So far stars have committed themselves in admittedly small but telling ways.

Nobody pretends this will be easy but both sides have committed themselves in good faith to achieve a new start.

The Liberal Democrats have consistently argued that drug laws should be based on scientific advice, but have never committed themselves in a manifesto to decriminalisation.

The federal government, and all the states, have committed themselves in a "national partnership agreement" to moderately ambitious targets for all these ends.