Mr. Lipsky is committed to the concept that every person is an infinitely complex, ultimately unpredictable bundle of contradictory forces.
That was given away so quickly it is worth asking whether anyone was committed to the concept at all, or if it was simply included to extract leverage.
Hospitals are committed to the concept of the "rapid-through-put-patient" -- get them in, get them fixed, get them out.
Under President Bill Clinton, the U.S. remained committed to the concept, so much so that the administration insisted that a cap-and-trade provision be included in the Kyoto Protocol.
He is ardently committed to the concept, and despite its novelty, believes that this is the path forward for improving governance.
Mr Flanagan said the Scottish government's new Curriculum for Excellence is for children aged three to 18, so they had already committed to the concept of providing educational fundamentals to all children from the age of three.
Quixey calls this concept "search as a platform", and it's so committed to the concept that Kagan tells me Quixey's filed for a trademark on the phrase.
And for businesses like yours that are committed to the concept and the idea, we're going to work to make sure that it works for you.
The question for Governor Palin and for other believers committed to the concept of American exceptionalism is this: have we kept the Lord's covenant?
Soon, Berkman was working for the autonomists' publications, Der Anarchist and Die Autonomie, but he remained committed to the concept of violent action as a tool for inspiring revolutionary change.
