But she softened the blow with a commitment to wait for a report next month on the progress by Athens to cut government spending and implement far reaching tax and labour market reforms.
The NHS Plan later that year set out a plethora of targets to bring this about, of which the most salient was a commitment to shorten waiting times.
He must now follow through on his recent promise to bring his party back into a home-rule government if the I.R.A. made a firm commitment to disarm, without waiting for actual disarmament to begin.
In particular, he should not retreat from his recently stated view that he would be willing to bring his party back into a Northern Ireland government once the I.R.A. made a firm commitment to disarm, without waiting for the actual handover of weapons to begin.
The lengthy permit process is a commitment the buyer has to wait out, say developers.
There were only two problems: because Mr. Ball had other commitments, they would have to wait more than a year between the time the pilot was commissioned and when the series would be seen; and the new series was about vampires.
Says Geffen: "The amount of money that it takes, and the commitment and willingness of people to wait a long time to make a return on their money, tells you that it can't happen again".
After the reading, Ms. Tichler recalled, "Everyone said, 'Let's do it.' " Ms. Portman had immediate movie commitments, so the group decided to wait for her until the summer of 2001.
That is why, for example, the government's commitment to reduce the hospital waiting list is now widely discredited.
The Los Angeles project is believed to represent the largest commitment to the free cellphone waiting areas by a North American airport.
