Sentence examples for consuming commitment from inspiring English sources

The chairmanship was a tougher and more time consuming commitment than he realised when Peter Preston persuaded him to serve.

We didn't have to tune into that summer show on the Bravo cable network, "Sports Kids Moms & Dads," to witness consuming commitment to athletics; we just had to look around.

And it almost always involves a deep and consuming commitment of passion and time.

"The 85 days remaining before the first votes are cast plus my especially consuming commitments to current duties on the Benghazi committee, the house intelligence committee and a new investigatory intelligence task force will preclude the kind of campaign that Kansans deserve," Pompeo said in a statement.

However, they have varied reasons for making a time-consuming commitment that offers little personal glory.

He graduated in 1942 with a degree that he described as "mediocre, to say the best", because of his time-consuming commitment to Marxism and leftwing activism.

He was so adamant about his students' need for all-consuming commitment that he was once enlisted by Bobby Knight, Indiana's long-serving, combustible basketball coach, to give a like-minded pep talk to the team.

By that point, his all-consuming commitment to Factum had prompted his first wife to leave him; Lowe told me, with sympathy, that "she wanted a tranquil life, full of holidays and nice things, and she wasn't going to get it".

They said common bonds trumped their differing views about it — bonds of faith, mainly, but also connections forged in the prosaic, time-consuming commitments people make to serve on the Buildings and Grounds Committee, to chaperone Teen Night, to volunteer for the bereaved-parishioners dinner squad.

So what's a young black scholar to do? Learn to say "no" to at least some of the time-consuming commitments you're asked to take on, Brown and Jackson say.

These are time-consuming commitments for most of us and our kids often resist our attempts to hang with them, but those moments are worth fighting for-if only to keep them off the computer for fifteen extra minutes a day.