Britain secured new economic protections and a commitment to be excluded from official references to the EU's goal of building a European "superstate". In addition, EU leaders agreed to lower taxes and bureaucratic hurdles for small and medium-sized businesses.
Indonesia supports various proposals to allow developing countries greater flexibility to exclude from reduction commitments those measures that are used for food security, rural development, etc. Indonesia proposes that the Green Box be expanded to include such measures.
Thus marriage involves a commitment to act for the relationship as well as to exclude incompatible options—although there is controversy over what specific policies these general commitments entail.
Senators must also get a commitment from Mr. Murdock that he will vigorously oppose proposals circulating on Capitol Hill to exclude undocumented immigrants from the count.
Census data from 1983, the latest year available, shows the poor have a general commitment to the workplace: Excluding the elderly, the disabled, students and mothers with children under age 6--persons society does not ordinarily expect to hold jobs--more than two-thirds of the heads of poor households do work at least part-time, including 77% of the men and 55% of the women.
Ghannouchi and other leaders affirmed their commitment to democratic rights and excluded references to Sharia law in the new constitution.
Ontological commitment to universals is not excluded by the quantifier criteria; a theory couched in a first-order language whose variables range over universals can be so committed.
But religious commitment need not exclude a commitment to coherent thought.
But Amnesty International pointed out that the document excludes any commitment to bring to justice those who displaced, tortured, killed, abducted, disappeared or raped millions of Colombians over the past five decades.
"We have changed a lot because the world has changed, but what remains the same is our commitment to changes that benefit the excluded majority," Senator Jose Mujica, leader of the Tupamaro faction, said in an interview here.
