After years of threatening to walk away from the sport, O'Sullivan now appears thoroughly intent on committing himself for the long term.
Miller was an undergraduate at Springhill College, a Jesuit school in Mobile, Alabama, when he volunteered as a missionary, and he packed his bags knowing that he was committing himself for life.
He has committed himself for far more than the initial two years and describes himself as a "lifer".
And, in terms of raw figures, Scotland already enjoys the European levels of funding to which Tony Blair has committed himself for the UK.
Murray will warm-up for Wimbledon by playing in the Aegon Championships at Queen's Club, having committed himself for the next five years.
Martin had committed himself for the entire year and Gambill and Gimelstob, who have previously served as practice partners for the team, both volunteered for duty once Gullikson failed to recruit his top-ranked veterans.
Mr. Edwards's campaign advisers said he had not meant to commit himself for the general election, but the discrepancy added fuel to a debate over why he had abruptly embraced public financing after long signaling that he would not.
He committed himself for depression and suicidal impulses, last October, and his set maintained a similar melancholy, leaning heavily on sombre material from later albums, like "Indicud" and his most recent, "Passion, Pain & Demon Slayin'".
He committed himself for the first half of the process to shoring up the Ulster Unionist leader David Trimble, though it is now clear that Sinn Féin had no intention of helping Trimble.
As for those very few who didn't watch TV or read the tabloids, or respect these media, surely even these miseries bore the groom the respectful good will one naturally bears any person who has just committed himself, for the third time, to the noble and demanding sacrament of marriage.
Optimism about our culture's future is a lot to ask from a writer who has committed himself for almost 50 years to the reform of cultural evils, like clotted prose, bad taste and poor public education, that have stubbornly refused to be reformed.
