Last year, Justin Welby, the Archbishop of Canterbury wrote that meeting our 0.7% goal is "a clear and significant commitment to solidarity with our global neighbours".
As Miranda K. Hassett recounted in a doctoral dissertation on the controversy: "Spong's remarks and the resultant publicity provided an unparalleled opportunity for Northern conservatives to denounce American liberalism by asserting its underlying arrogance and racism, and to distance themselves from such sentiments and affirm their own commitment to solidarity with African Christians".
Quantification helps depoliticise agendas, and the MDGs conveniently leaves out the potentially controversial yet transformative aspects of the declaration, namely the commitments to solidarity, equality, and the respect for human rights and democracy and the norms of equality, non-discrimination, participation and accountability.
He's made a commitment to show solidarity with the poorest workers".
At its party congress in 2003, the PS accepted the rule of the market but retained a commitment to secularity, solidarity, and the general welfare.
The calculation – supported by plenty of poll evidence – is that there is an abiding communitarian spirit in the country that will respond to a genuine commitment to promoting solidarity and shared success rather than putting individual aspiration first.
But there was also a commitment to European solidarity, said the first official: "Merkel and Schäuble understand that history will judge them on how they dealt with the sovereign-debt crisis in Europe".
These Welsh ideas included the bedrock principles of a federal union not a unitary state, a consistent though not uniform approach, a commitment to shared solidarity, and a shared understanding of the need to temper England's asymmetric role.
The screenplay's indictment of capitalism's often cruel pragmatism is obvious and poignant – in her jury statement SFF's jury president, the Indigenous filmmaker Rachel Perkins, focused on the film's "brave, essential commitment to community solidarity".
Instead of sustained commitment to collective solidarity we now have the "Big Society", which means that by giving Tiny Tim a bit of turkey at Christmas you have cleansed your conscience and are free to go back to business as usual.
At the same time, challenges remain in developing a human rights framework and applying it to environmental health research, particularly how to understand the relationship between the pursuit of ethical ideals and a commitment to pragmatic solidarity.
