Sentence examples for contrary to the commitment from inspiring English sources

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"It is contrary to the commitment made to our president by David Cameron during their last meeting.

Privately, some British officials are furious, as the concept of giving in to terrorist ransom demands runs directly contrary to the commitment undertaken by all the G8 leaders at the Loch Earn summit in Northern Ireland in June.

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"If this becomes law, it would place Colombia in a position that is contrary to the commitments in the area of rights".

Yet nations that committed to the agreement in the 1990s "may find restrictions on size are contrary to the commitments given to limit adverse affects on financial service suppliers," the Barbados letter said.

If European economic policies have been economically unsound, socially disruptive and normatively contrary to the commitments that emerged in Europe after the second world war, they have been politically naive as well.

Delegates argued that the government proposals, meant to promote growth, were contrary to the party's commitment to localism and the Localism Act 2011, and failed to address the real reason why homes were not being built.

The failure to do so runs contrary to the President's commitment to transparency and results in concealing what may actually turn out to be war crimes.

"Allegations of actions that run contrary to that commitment are taken very seriously and will be investigated vigorously".

In reference to the upcoming European Union summit in Lisbon to negotiate a treaty on reform, Cameron lambasted Brown for ruling out a referendum on an agreement (contrary to the prime minister's commitment to hold one on a European constitution).

This information gap is contrary to the legal and policy commitments in Scotland, to improve the health of minority ethnic groups (Scottish Executive Health Department, 2002), reduce health inequalities (Scottish Executive, 1999) and promote racial equality (Home Office, 2001).

This view is widely described as 'fideist', but ought more fairly to be called arational fideism, or, where commitment contrary to the evidence is positively favoured, irrational or counter-rational fideism.

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