Sentence examples for commitments to lower from inspiring English sources
So long as U.S. emissions grow unchecked, obtaining commitments to lower emissions from countries like China and India is next to impossible.
China has been criticized by United States officials, most recently Commerce Secretary Donald L. Evans, for not living up to commitments to lower trade barriers that it made after joining the World Trade Organization.
Following a painstaking 18 months of preparatory work and innovative diplomatic negotiation techniques by the conference's organizers, the 196 nations participating in the international negotiation succeeded in making enforceable commitments to lower their greenhouse-gas emissions to levels that could ward off environmental disasters.
PARIS — Britain's plans to build a third runway at chronically congested Heathrow Airport in London won conditional endorsement from the government's chief climate adviser on Tuesday, which said that the expansion would not necessarily keep the country from meeting its long-term commitments to lower carbon emissions.
Not only did China stay in the pact, but it also doubled down on its commitments to lower emissions and signed a climate vision with the EU and Canada to work together without the United States.
Seven leading pharmaceutical executives appeared before a powerful Senate committee but made no firm commitments to lower prices, and lawmakers are far from settling on a strategy.
The tax guarantee [Hague's stated commitment to lower the burden of taxes regardless of the state of the world economy in the next Parliament] will kill him.
But Janus's commitment to lower its fund management fees could reduce its profit, said Rachel Barnard, a stock analyst at Morningstar.
And he believed that by backing up his commitment to lower inflation with a new policy framework, he would break people's inflationary expectations.
It is hard to see how this is to be achieved.Last year, an outcry prevented Mr Singh from fulfilling a budget commitment to lower the government's subsidy of the price of fertiliser.
