Sentence examples for committed to expensive from inspiring English sources

"For too long, the U.S. has been committed to expensive missile defense strategies without sufficient consideration of the costs and real utility," said L. David Montague, the panel's co-chairman and a retired president of Lockheed Martin Missiles and Space.

But paying for that new infrastructure could be difficult, because CERN is already committed to expensive upgrades to its Large Hadron Collider, the world's largest atom smasher.

L. David Montague, former President of Lockheed Martin Missiles and Space program and a member of the National Research Council, may have summed it up best: "For too long, the U.S. has been committed to expensive missile defense strategies without sufficient consideration of the costs and real utility".

Most operators were opting for modest upgrades to networks, he said, rather than committing to expensive new systems.

Decisions about new generating stations are being made by entrepreneurs rather than public utilities, he said, and entrepreneurs are unlikely to do what the utilities used to: commit to expensive generating stations that could take a decade to build.

InContext Solutions helps retailers see how their ideas will work — from a store's actual layout to how shoppers behave in it — before committing to expensive redesign and build-out efforts.

Its publisher, Robert L. Allbritton, 37, scion of the banking and media family that once owned the defunct Washington Star, said in an interview that he would finance The Politico for "the foreseeable future" and has committed to paying for expensive campaign travel.

Russian gas company Gazprom has committed to building an expensive pipeline that would deliver Russian gas to southern Europe.

In a futile effort to make Congressional Republicans happy enough that they might actually agree to other things, President Obama has committed to making the incredibly expensive complex of nuclear labs and production plants even more incredibly expensive.

After initial hesitation from airlines (most of which had committed to popular and less-expensive propeller-driven airliners from rival firms), but buttressed by sales to the U.S. Air Force in the form of an aerial tanker (the KC-135 Stratotanker), the four-engine plane, designated the 707, went into commercial service in 1958 on a Pan American transatlantic route.

Better to improve the east-west line and build a new motorway, some argue, than commit to an expensive and uncertain north-south rail project.Build it and they might comeThe Baltic states lack the population to justify advanced high-speed lines, with trains travelling at more than 300km per hour.