Daithí O'Ceallaigh, press council chairman said he was "delighted" at Feeney's appointment, adding: "He has enjoyed a long and respected media career with a strong commitment to standards in journalism, news and current affairs".
At the National Education Summit of governors, educators and business leaders in 1996, a consensus emerged that the United States had no shot at real public school reform without a commitment to standards and rigorous testing.
Because of the open source community's commitment to standards, many applications from different developers can work together in the same environment.
By 2003, the Auto-ID center had 103 sponsors, branches around the world and commitments to standards so any smart package could talk to networks at suppliers and retailers.
A humorous aside about the video linked to above is that while it's a talk about Microsoft's commitments to standards and interoperability with IE9, you need Silverlight to play it.
In its case against Google, the FTC claimed that Google and its subsidiary Motorola Mobility Inc had breached commitments to standard-setting bodies to license its patents on terms that are fair, reasonable and non-discriminatory.
To slash Medicare and Medicaid spending before reforms to the health care system bear fruit would mean reneging on the nation's commitment to provide standard health care for the elderly, the disabled and the poor.
The model answers the regress problem without commitment to the standard alternatives: skepticism, foundationalism, coherentism (Rorty 1979; Williams 1991; Brandom 1994; for a view of these restrictions as pragmatic, see Unger 1975; Stroud 1984).
The palliative care physicians reaffirmed this commitment to flout standard rules.
But they symbolise a broad commitment to basic standards of decent living.
