Sentence examples for commitments about whether from inspiring English sources

After Kant, it has been common to approach the project of categories in a neutral spirit that Brian Carr (1987, 7) calls "categorial descriptivism", as describing the categorial structure that the world would have according to our thought, experience, or language, while refraining from making commitments about whether or not these categories are occupied.

"They would give us no commitment about whether this is just an interim plan or not.

The Lib Dems and Labour have both supported the pensions "triple lock" in principle but have made no commitment about whether they would keep it after the next election.

Perhaps philosophers would be well advised to focus more on the metaphysical and epistemological questions raised by a theory's ideological commitments and worry less about whether these ideological commitments should be also regarded as introducing a distinctive kind of ontological commitment.

The question is whether or not they make a public commitment about how much they will do and by when," said Hu.

I didn't expect that this approach would result in the almost complete abandonment of core commitments, whether it was about torture, habeas corpus or health care.

They said there would also be a statement outlining both U.S. and Gulf states' commitments but were vague about whether that would entail the written U.S. assurances that some Gulf diplomats have sought.

Ms. Rhee has declined to name the foundations, however, raising worries among some teachers about the foundations' motives and about whether their commitments would remain solid if the nation's financial crisis were to be prolonged.

UNITED NATIONS — An international effort to finance the reconstruction of Haiti attracted billions of dollars in pledges at a conference here on Wednesday, but the very size of the outpouring raised questions about whether the commitments would be met and how fast the financial support could help salve the needs of the Haitian people.

A spokesman for Peter Dutton, who was shadow health minister before the 2013 election and health minister after, referred Guardian Australia to Mirabella's attempts to clarify the claim of a commitment, but did not answer questions about whether Dutton was aware of such a commitment.

Among experts in human resources, a sharp debate is under way about whether workers' commitment to their employers has waned in response to corporate downsizing and a sense that many top executives have betrayed workers and investors.