First, the G20's commitment to refrain from competitive currency depreciations will come under increasing strain.
"A common commitment to refrain from special favors," he wrote in a memo at the time, "serves the same economic function as a common commitment to refrain from stealing".
"The commitment to refrain from action at the [United Nations] ends after the nine-month period agreed for talks," he told reporters in Ramallah.
They don't need hotels to "protect" them by disabling hotspots and forcing them to use expensive in-house Wi-Fi.Marriott owes business travellers an apology, and a commitment to refrain from this type of behaviour in the future.
Given the severity of the current crisis, however, it is doubtful that an Israeli commitment to refrain from building in the Arab neighborhoods of East Jerusalem, as Mr. Peres has proposed, will be enough to satisfy the Americans' demands.
A compromise formula negotiated by emissaries — an Israeli apology for operational mistakes — was previously rejected mainly because Israel didn't feel it had secured a firm Turkish commitment to refrain from legal action against Israelis involved in the raid and a clear path to normalizing relations.
In a statement, the Saudi foreign ministry said it confirmed the kingdom's commitment to refrain from intervening in the internal matters of other countries, including Canada, and in return rejected any intervention in its domestic affairs and internal relations with its citizens.
The Five Precepts are quite similar to basic lists of prohibitions in other great world religions: those who take them make a commitment to refrain from killing, stealing, sexual misconduct, lying, and drunkenness.
Cynthia Townley has also argued for the positive value of ignorance in our epistemic practices, recognizing that our rich relations of epistemic dependence require trust, which itself requires ignorance and a commitment to refrain from remedying it (2011, 23).
"The First Amendment protects Americans' right to boycott, and the government cannot condition hurricane relief or any other public benefit on a commitment to refrain from protected political expression," said Andre Segura, the legal director of ACLU's Texas chapter.
