But he showed that when he was finally committed to throwing all his political capital onto the table, he could win, if by the narrowest of margins.
Looked at in that way, pulling investments from companies committed to throwing more fuel on the climate change fire makes sense.
Step off!" But by the time Rivera heard their shouts, Hunter was more than halfway to second and Rivera had committed to throwing to first.
Neither can an MMA fighter normally commit to throwing a perfect boxing punch, starting at the feet with all the rotation and turning of the shoulders that such a blow entails, for fear of leaving themselves vulnerable to all sorts of counters, with fist and knee and foot and elbow, or takedowns if it doesn't land clean.
In 1950, in "The Liberal Imagination," Lionel Trilling predicted that Gatsby's story would lose its magnetism: Gatsby, Trilling wrote, represented the fantasy of "personal ambition and heroism, of life committed to, or thrown away for, some ideal of self," while modern society urges young people to find "distinction through cooperation, subordination, and an expressed piety of social usefulness".
European policy makers are committed to austerity and are throwing up new roadblocks to the creation of banking union that could help clean up its financial system.
"The lads committed to every day and threw their heart and soul into it".
"Of course you can argue he lost a fifth place, but once he'd committed to that move, Kimi threw it away as well as him.
Instead of looking outward to find the value that determines what you should do, you can look inward to what you can stand behind, commit to, resolve to throw yourself behind.
I am deep in the throws and committed to continue to climbing the mountain, but self-doubt seeps in with each step.
In the end, I decided eight years of my life was too important to throw away, so I committed to putting in a few more years to scaling up and getting out".
