Sentence examples for committed thereby from inspiring English sources

For example, he said, many biologists have proposed that the displays are meant to keep the partner impressed and committed, thereby preventing the mate from leaving the relationship.

(Interestingly, the protagonists of these stories are never falsely accused; Himes made sure that, like him, they were serving time for crimes they had committed, thereby forestalling any possible liberal interpretation fuelled by notions of injustice).

"The breach of contract which the Trust thereby committed was serious and repudiatory".

The Ministry of Defence publicly identified Kelly as the source of Gilligan's story, and, a week later, he committed suicide, thereby sparking a controversy that threatened Blair's political survival.

(Compare: one might believe that 'sin' is properly defined as 'offense against God.' One can clearly affirm this definition while rejecting God's existence; all that one is committed to thereby is that there really are no sins).

The target cell essentially commits suicide, thereby destroying the virus within the cell as well.

They do, however, illocutionarily entail it: anyone committed to 'I assert that p' assertorically is thereby committed to p assertorically.

However, joint commitments thus specified imply a normative relationship between the parties thereby committed: if A and B are jointly committed in some way, then each of them is obligated to act accordingly and each of them is entitled to demand the other's conforming action; in other words, they owe each other such action (cf. Gilbert 2009).

Looking at it one way, B.D. thereby committed a murder, so Strangler Bob's prediction for him came true.

"The President, alleged to have committed perjury, is thereby considered by some to have violated the most sacred of all trusts," he said.

Recusant, English Roman Catholic from the period about 1570 to 1791 who refused to attend services of the Church of England and thereby committed a statutory offense.