Commit: "Commitment" in a sense means loyalty.
At issue in the ruling was not civil commitment in and of itself, but the fact that Minnesota had never fully discharged anyone placed in its detention facilities.
Having only recently extracted itself from a decade-long commitment in Iraq, Washington is loth to involve itself in another Middle Eastern military adventure.
The researchers suggested that this represents a process of "neural commitment," in which the infant brain wires itself to understand one language and its sounds.
In any case, it is good to keep in mind that the notion of ontological dependence itself does not immediately force one to make a commitment in this regard, even though some of its applications may entail such a commitment.
So, although his asserting the moral necessity of God's choosing to create the best commits Leibniz to the absolute necessity of the hypothetical proposition (1), in itself this commitment still leaves him free to deny that God's choosing to create the best is absolutely necessary.
In itself the commitment is not particularly hefty: typically the directors of large American orchestras are on their home podiums from 12 to 15 weeks each season.
Still, the commitment to offer the therapy in itself is significant in a country struggling, like many, to balance prevention and treatment.
"There really should be a commitment on the part of presenters to nurture artists," Ms. Garfield says -- as if presenting companies not ready to present themselves were not, in itself, a commitment to nurturing.
What is America's commitment in Libya?
