Sentence examples for conflicting commitment from inspiring English sources

When "Angels" was offered to Wolfe, he had a conflicting commitment to direct Jose Rivera's play "Marisol" in a Hartford Stage Company production that was bound for the Public.

Mr. Freeh, a former director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation who did not attend the hearing because of a conflicting commitment, said he believed "all of the customers of MF Global Inc. eventually will be made whole".

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(Ms. Perry and Lady Gaga both ended up with conflicting commitments, Mrs. Davis said).

Though stylistically brilliant, his work is ultimately limited by conflicting commitments to faith and to reason, to autocracy and to liberty.

(Pocock 1994 outlines Burke's conflicting commitments to English Whiggery and Irish Catholicism).

"Sometimes it's difficult as a chief executive officer to keep balance in your life, between the conflicting commitments of work, play, family, spirituality," Chandler says.

Communitarians who advocate both increased commitment to public affairs and strengthened ties to the workplace (to the point that it becomes a psychological community) also face the problem of conflicting commitments.

These alternate views place international agencies promoting the abandonment of cutting in a dilemma, trapped between conflicting commitments to cultural tolerance and universal human rights.

The second is from Shannon Gleeson (assistant professor of Latin American and Latino Studies at the University of California, Santa Cruz), who is the author of Conflicting Commitments: The Politics of Enforcing Immigrant Worker Rights in San Jose and Houston (Cornell University Press, 2012).

Some caregivers expressed concerns of having conflicting commitments (for example, jobs) that would not enable them to be present during CLHW visits.