Sentence examples for commitments to states from inspiring English sources

WASHINGTON — Gasoline tax revenue is falling so fast that the federal government may not be able to meet its commitments to states for road projects already under way, the secretary of transportation said Monday.

PAGE A14 PROMISED ROAD PLANS IN JEOPARDY Gasoline tax revenue is falling so fast that the federal government may not be able to meet its commitments to states for road projects already under way, the secretary of transportation, Mary E. Peters, said.

In 1995, the state began a 50-year plan to catch up on its legal obligation to make good on pension commitments to state employees.

But the Labour leader was careful to distinguish between his approach and the party's previous commitments to state corporatism and widespread public ownership.

We are now considering legislation that would address rising tuition prices by requiring states to maintain their budget commitments to state colleges and universities.

Commitment to states of affairs in addition to propositions is sometimes regarded with scorn, as a gratuitous ontological duplication.

It demands we die to an unhealthy commitment to states rights, insensitivity to poverty and a greed that demands maximal profit in the face of obscene levels of wealth inequality.

Like termites eating away at a building's foundation, a weak commitment to states ultimately threatens to topple the internal and external order provided by the Westphalian system, with America and our allies directly in the path of collapse.

The newly elected leader had just invited his party to abandon its traditional commitment to state ownership.

The party's blueprint for the next five years includes an ideological, though vague, commitment to state ownership.

Nor is Brazil Venezuela, since it doesn't share the latter's commitment to state-orchestrated social change.