As much as I have confidence in President-elect Obama's sincerity, skills and depth of his commitment to bring about a new kind of politics–a kind of politics he has demonstrated in our close work together in the Senate–he will face the daunting task of confronting the smallness of the politics both parties have practiced for decades.
Underlying Walzer's account, it seems, is a commitment to a kind of constitutive incommensurability.
Writing with Grice, he argued that Quine's criticisms of the idea of analyticity rest on a commitment to a kind of reduction that itself is simply a dogma.
Whereas one might regard the British philosophers, especially Berkeley and Hume, as arguing that philosophical principles and commitments take a kind of precedence in driving one's interpretations of the concepts of force, motion, space and time, Euler argued that natural philosophy specifically, mechanics—ought to take precedence.
Such a project requires an almost obsessive commitment to conservation, a kind of devotion that Fay, affiliated with the Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS) in New York City, has demonstrated before.
For Carlyle, the commitment from Soros Fund Management represents a kind of financial blessing from one of the current high priests of investing.
Such a commitment to authenticity promotes a kind of transparency that creates deeply meaningful and fulfilling personal connections.
These ideas are then attacked by resistant "antibodies" designed to protect operations, focus staff, or deliver existing commitments to customers- a kind of inertia at all costs.
The key appears to be in a kind of commitment to ambiguity and indeterminacy.
As to the reason for using old-fashioned casements, which are typically more expensive than conventional windows, Mr. Tamarkin said, "It's a kind of commitment to a classic Modernism which is rooted in traditions of authenticity".
