Mr. Woolston said that a quarter-century ago, Joplin committed itself to economic development, seeking to capitalize on its handsome old buildings.
Some might imagine that the nurses on the night shift haven't been able to attend education on compassionate bedside manner when it is offered during regular bankers' hours, but that hospital has committed itself to professional development, and each of the nurses involved in my story had been relieved for an appropriate amount of time to attend the course on Service with Heart.
Through successive major international conferences and summits of the 1990s, the international community has committed itself to a common development agenda with clear goals and targets.
Speaking at the World Economic Forum here Jan . 25 Thierry Breton, the French minister of economy, finance and industry, noted that the nation has committed itself to spending more on research and development as part of the Lisbon Agenda, which promoted a series of reforms that would help Europe become the world's most dynamic economy by 2010.
The development gap The international community committed itself to girls' education, yet it is not a priority for development investments.
At the end of its five years in office Labour has introduced new laws, regulations and institutions, and has committed itself to substantially increasing resources for service developments to social care.
The EU's development and humanitarian arms have committed themselves to working more closely to promote resilience, and the UK Department for International Development (DfID) has committed itself to building disaster resilience into all its country programmes by 2015.
And countries, such as China and India, that continue to buy Iranian oil, will be able to extract discounts.Up to now, sanctions have failed in their main political objective to persuade Iran to change course by committing itself to verifiably peaceful nuclear development.
In this declaration, the global community commits itself to the elimination of barriers to development and human dignity.
To this end, China will further commit itself to world scientific and technological development and devote more effort toward international cooperation and growth.
