This involves intellectual commitment to a basic belief, as expressed by the Deuteronomic proclamation: "Hear, O Israel, the Lord, our God, the Lord is one!" It also imposes obligations regarding communal and individual behaviour.
People volunteer to be needed, share a skill, get to know their community, to demonstrate a commitment to a cause or belief, gain leadership skills, or even due to pressure from a relative or friend.
Many in the Sikh community said their defence of their own and others' places of worship was an illustration of their commitment to seva, a belief in selfless service.
Dillon shows an interesting dichotomy between Gold's refusal to join the Communist Party, whose teachings he finds unimpressive, and his readiness to become a spy, simply out of a sense of commitment to a friend and his belief that the Russian people need his help.
A reaction against Lewis and Oxonian medievalism - a commitment to the belief that the classical tradition was the creative key to the greatest age of English literature - became the driving force of Hunter's writing and teaching.
"From the CEO downwards, there's a commitment to the belief that basic research will deliver the medicines of tomorrow.
It should be noted, therefore, that underlying More's argumentation is a commitment to the belief that matter is essentially passive (capable only of inertial motions), and that only immaterial entities are active.
Many in the SETI community have shown commitment to the belief that a technologically advanced civilization will be altruistic, despite the lack of evidence supporting that assumption.
Commitment to beliefs, whatever those beliefs may be, is probably common among Mills Brothers".
From the experience of armies and dogmas and death that shaped her early life, she found a new commitment to the belief that the poetic impulse, however small its objects, is always saner than the polemical imperative, however passionate its certitudes.
