Sentence examples for commitment to an ideal from inspiring English sources

Barcelona can be likened to a sect in its single-minded, exclusive commitment to an ideal: Mascherano has successfully been re-programmed.

What makes us Americans is our shared commitment to an ideal — that all of us are created equal, and all of us have the chance to make of our lives what we will.

The cultural diversity of his life is reflected in the variety of his poems in their skilfully handled formal range, in the scope of their subject-matter and in their commitment to an ideal of civilised life shared by many cultures.

One reason that many philosophers of science have found it difficult to accept the conclusion that non-epistemic, feminist values can make a positive contribution to science is their commitment to an ideal of scientific objectivity.

In such cases, the loyalty seems to ride on some commitment to an associational ideal ("He will always be our son").. Nevertheless, though it may sometimes appear to allow for attributions of loyalty to the supposedly embedded values, our loyalty is primarily to the affiliational object or person, and not to the particular values that it instantiates.

Ellison never published another novel during his lifetime, but his essays, reviews, and interviews, published as Shadow and Act (1964) and Going to the Territory (1986), acknowledged his unwavering commitment to a pluralistic ideal of art that knows no allegiance to any school or program.

All these years later, their seeming nihilism seems more like integrity: a clear-eyed commitment to an old-fashioned ideal, despite its contradictions.

"I am enthused by the idea of a marriage between excellence, relevance and a commitment to the ideal of a university that is a driver for regional development and economic growth through the internationally-recognised quality of its research and teaching," he says.

There used to be deep-rooted commitment to a non-commercial public service ideal among staff, and consequently BBC output had a different feel from rivals.

I would hope that the reaction of my fellow Times readers to your series about the growing, hardening social class divisions in America would be not a fatalistic acceptance but a revived commitment to the ideal of a classless society.

Despite the ideal of commitment to a more liberal political arena, however, the RCD continued to be closely linked to the regime and was consequently rewarded with a dominant position in the majority of national matters.