Various military commanders have for years expressed discomfort that Obama's commitment to emptying Guantánamo has inhibited them from capturing terrorist suspects beyond the declared battlefield of Afghanistan.
Municipal authorities boast on their websites of their "local offer", which might amount to a vague pseudo-commitment to empty bins.
Mr Anderson said the pilot scheme formed part of his commitment to bring 1,000 empty properties back into use across the city.
Another reason for refusing to allow predicates to carry ontological commitment parallels Quine's reason for refusing ontological commitment to names: just as there can be empty names, there can be empty predicates.
It allows a proper name like "Apollo" to be both genuinely empty, carrying no commitment to any fictional entity, but also genuinely non-descriptive.
The soundtrack is integral: Mr. Preljocaj's cleverly named "Empty moves" (a section of which was first presented at the Joyce Theater in 2006) mirrors "Empty Words" in its unflappable commitment to form.
His argument was that the commitment to parity of esteem for mental health must be more than an empty 'slogan'.
I'm assuming our expressions of grief and our commitment to do something different to prevent these things from happening are not empty words.
But sadly Mr van Pallandt's "unswerving commitment to developing the low cost market through implementing an ambitious growth strategy" proved a promise as empty as the Buzz boss's planes.
Solving visibility problems, over capacity, empty loads and bad bookings may need a kick start of a very real commitment to the collaborative process, and this means being open to working with other entities.
13– 15 Weakening global commitment to support delivery of these proven life-saving measures, arising from the perception of a half-empty glass, represents an equally important and immediate threat to successful malaria control programs in Africa today.
