Sentence examples for controversial commitment from inspiring English sources

The Bush administration inherited a controversial commitment to Plan Colombia, a scheme launched by President Andres Pastrana to fight drugs and guerrillas.

The £540m direct grant continues the campaign to release schools from the financial, and thus political, embrace of local education authorities.The government is also extending its increasingly controversial commitment to educational testing to justify the new money.

Abbott's deceitful request to the committee is not about delivering environmental or scientific objectives, but political ones, including the controversial commitment he made to tear up the Tasmanian forest agreement and strip back the recent additions because, he argued, too much forest was already locked up in national parks.

We have seen that there are resources to defend the coherence of the notion of perfect goodness and even necessary perfect goodness, though making use of those resources requires one to take on further controversial commitments.

The essential history of the Vietnam War by award-winning historian Peter Edwards.The Vietnam War was Australia's longest and most controversial military commitment of the twentieth century, ending in humiliation for the United States and its allies with the downfall of South Vietnam.

This is itself a controversial metaphysical commitment.

Capping skilled labour immigration of non-EU workers is one of the government's most controversial policy commitments.

They thus move directly from the claim that certain locutions incur no controversial ontological commitments of the kind incurred by singular first-order quantifiers to the claim that these locutions incur no controversial ontological commitment whatsoever.

An examination of the foundations of Elliot Sober's philosophy of biology as reflected in his introductory textbook of that title reveals substantial and controversial philosophical commitments.

First, one might seek a non-parochial argument for ethical supervenience, such as the one suggested in Section 2. However, this might not be fully successful: as noted in Section 2, discussions of supervenience seem unavoidably to involve controversial philosophical commitments, for example to various species of modality or to philosophically interesting conceptual truths.

He also denied that a series of controversial Conservative manifesto commitments had been dumped in the wake of the disappointing election result.