Sentence examples for commitment to losing from inspiring English sources

According to people familiar with its business plan, W.U.S.A. has raised $40 million to cover the first five years of operations, which means a commitment to losing between $8 million and $10 million a year, provided the league can draw 6,500 fans to each of the 80 games during its inaugural 2001 season.

If you are desperate for your friend to commit to losing weight, resist the temptation to threaten by using "or else" statements or making your friendship or affection contingent on his or her commitment to losing weight.

Give your spouse the commitment to lose twenty pounds and the promise to spend six months at the gym.

At times, the main barrier between individuals and a commitment to lose weight may be a mental or emotional difficulty.

If your friend is in denial about his or her weight problems, or if your mate is simply not interested in changing diet or exercise habits, more overt efforts on your part are unlikely to influence him or her to make a commitment to lose weight.

If you kept waiting at the restaurant or working with the employee, you fell into a trap that organizational behavior expert Barry Staw calls escalation of commitment to a losing course of action.

Resistance was largely ceremonial, an obligation more than a serious commitment to a lost cause.

His heroism is in the simple fact of his determination, his commitment to the lost cause of his heart.

Escalating commitment to a losing strategy sent Polaroid on the road to bankruptcy, costing many employees their jobs.

Business secretary Vince Cable is to urge banks to come up with a new commitment to avoid towns losing their last branch – a pledge that 81%-taxpayer-owned bank Royal Bank of Scotland broke in April.

And John Barrowman, pushing "Being Alive" (from "Company") to the edge of a sob, captured with an unmatched intensity the locked-in anguish and frustration of a commitment-phobe desperate to lose himself in a relationship but too fearful to let go.