Sentence examples for commitments of any sort from inspiring English sources

There is a real problem for politicians here, and perhaps for democracy: even though most citizens have no strong ideological commitments of any sort, when they do they care more about their religious commitments than their political ones.

I have never lived in a hotel for more than a week at a time, but I think of myself as a traveler--one who's never happier than when contemplating where he will be tomorrow, away from friends that frustrate, commitments of any sort.

But this conclusion falls short of the argument's desired conclusion that (18) does not incur any additional ontological commitments of any sort.

"No commitment of any sort has been given in this matter," a senior Mauritanian official said, speaking on the condition of anonymity.

But Abramovich, the Chelsea owner, continues to show little commitment to a project of any sort.

It would follow that (18) does not incur any additional ontological commitments of the sort that can be incurred by singular first-order quantifiers.

But Stockholm-based Bahnhof executive Jon Karlung tells me in an interview that the company's data center is "a kind of metaphor" for Bahnhof's commitment to resist any sort of intrusion, physical or legal.

But commitments of this sort cannot bind future governments.

There's still work to do, and IBM is certainly not alone in making commitments of this sort.

A possible solution would be to claim that joint commitments of the sort that Gilbert envisages are a special kind of collective intention, and that they presuppose more basic forms of collective intentionality, which are not joint commitments of the Gilbertian sort (Schmid 2005).

Common sense morality seems to understand us as having special obligations to those to whom we stand in some sort of special relationship, e.g., our friends, our family members, our colleagues, our fellow citizens, and those to whom we have made promises or commitments of some sort.