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.
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.
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.
This is itself a controversial metaphysical commitment.
Those commitments include controversial pension reforms and cuts to the public sector.
In both of these cases, a version of the method of paraphrase is used to support, rather than avoid, commitment to controversial ontology.
So long as Armstrong's non-standard conception of ontological commitment remains controversial, it also remains controversial whether the infinite series of totality facts to which Armstrong is "committed" may be dismissed as mere ontological frippery.
