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.
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 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.
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.
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.
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.
Such condition was then publicly noted and interpreted: This suggested that the single reconstructed arch of the Hurva could no longer be understood as a satisfactory expression of any commitment to rebuild the lost synagogue nor as an acceptable official response to its intentional destruction in 1948.
Escalating commitment to a losing strategy sent Polaroid on the road to bankruptcy, costing many employees their jobs.
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.
