Partisan brand identity and distinction is achieved largely through a commitment to a certain stock of rhetorical tropes and symbolic gestures that float almost entirely free of the party's substantive commitments.
Eating them is a measure of one's daring, and a mark of commitment to a certain kind of experience-driven twenty-first-century dining; cooking them usually means having tattoos of pigs' heads, knives, or foie-gras ducks on one's own muscles.
Moreover, 'David' seems to proselytize among his students, trying to turn their minds and souls towards pagan Greek philosophy understood as a commitment to a certain way of life.
What ties these theses together is a commitment to a certain arationality of thought: a creature's mental states are associated because of some facts about its causal history, and having these mental states associated entails that bringing one of a pair of associates to mind will, ceteris paribus, ensure that the other also becomes activated.
Belot and Earman (2001) have argued that since the traditional positions on the ontology of spacetime (relationalism and substantivalism) involve a commitment to a certain way of counting possibilities, the decision to eliminate symmetries can have serious implications for the ontology one can then adopt.
These attitudes and beliefs are believed to influence the physiotherapist's commitment to a certain treatment approach.
Adipogenic and osteogenic cells share many common features at early stages of development prior to their commitment to a certain cell lineage, followed by more different features at the later stages after commitment to a specific lineage.
You made commitments to provide a certain amount of money in the promised "interim payment".
Days before, Ms. Lord said, the New York Power Authority had announced details of a program that would give businesses access to subsidized hydroelectric power in exchange for a commitment to add a certain number of jobs and plow a certain amount of capital into their businesses.
We had a commitment to deliver a certain number of stars in every episode, and because this was a two-hour special, they finally, reluctantly accepted Halston, Gloria, Geoffrey and Bob as the equivalent of one star.
