One side commits them on a massive scale as a matter of strategy.
Abortion providers and pro-choice advocates have long been filling heaven with pure souls--instead of committing them to a lifetime on Earth, challenged with trials of sex, drugs, and transhumanism.
Birmingham's players signed an exclusive contract with the BBC committing them to appear only on BBC programmes in the weeks leading up to the final, though their post-match celebration would be covered live by the regional commercial station ATV.
Twenty-three international charities, including Oxfam and CARE, have agreed to adopt an initiative called Charter for Change, which commits them to passing on 20percentt of their humanitarian funding to national organisations.
In 1980, talks between British and Spanish ministers led to the Lisbon Agreement, a statement on cooperation between the two countries which committed them to starting negotiations on Gibraltar's future and lifting the Spanish restrictions on communications with Gibraltar.
But the document they signed omits (at French insistence, said diplomats) any reference to a "free-trade area"; nor does it commit them to start negotiations on tariff reductions by July 2001, as proposed earlier in June by the EU's foreign ministers.
Somehow, she knew that even if she confessed her sins she would go right on committing them.
And at least 65 countries, probably more, are preparing through meetings in Vienna, Bonn, Brussels and Oslo to sign a formal treaty in Ottawa at the end of the year that will commit them to a total ban on the use, production, sale and stockpile of these lethal devices.A lot of the countries signing up to this Canadian initiative are of the saintly sort, unlikely ever to use or sell the weapon.
The second day of official campaigning has seen a flurry of pledges on jobs, tax and health, with the Lib Dems saying their manifesto would commit them to increasing total spend on mental healthcare to £3.5bn over the next six years.
After being advised to try singing his lines as a way to commit them to memory, Timothy latches on to the power of Shakespeare's poetic meter as well as the hidden meaning of the Bard's words.
