Sentence examples for commitments behind from inspiring English sources

Solitude or friendship; spirituality or materiality; the unseen or what's right in front of you; the unknowable world or the world as it is — these are some of the commitments behind our preference for Knausgaard or Ferrante.

This holds even more so for transdisciplinary research, that in some interpretations leaves the disciplinary commitments behind altogether and embraces a radical problem based approach where even lay knowledge may be treated as equally important as scientific knowledge (see for instance Häberli et al. 2001, p. 7).

It seems false that we can respect persons and at the same time tell them to leave their fundamental commitments behind in public discourse, and it seems false also that some purely rational but still action-guiding component can be separated off from these competing substantive conceptions of the good (see Wolterstorff, "An Engagement with Rorty").

The president's stimulus package has put dollar commitments behind promises about promoting green-jobs and increasing renewable energy generation capacity of the U.S. Yet, despite the concern and awareness within the administration, American lifestyles are inextricably linked to very high automobile usage.

There is an unwavering (some might say frozen) set of ideological commitments behind everything he has done -- or mostly said -- since he retreated from New York City to bucolic Vermont.

Let's put some commitment behind it.

Several readers who spoke sensed that the novel had some pressure of personal commitment behind it, and Coupland confirmed this.

Tackling the issues of children and crime requires a reboot of government thinking and a willingness to put real commitment behind new ideas.

"You'll see Michelle Obama's face on the issues," Professor Ogletree said, "but you better believe that the commitment behind it also comes from Jocelyn Frye by her side".

On the contrary, the physical and emotional commitment behind the footage, which is palpable, is driven by professional skill or by serious ambition — or at least by the desire to bear witness.

Then again, the music-making and the obvious commitment behind it can mean everything, as when Kurt Masur and the New York Philharmonic gave a hastily arranged yet splendid and moving performance of Brahms's "German Requiem" to open the orchestra's last season in the week after Sept. 11.