Sentence examples for could only commit from inspiring English sources

Speaking on BBC Breakfast he could only commit to saying: "I certainly hope we'll have a candidate in every ward.

"If a high-school student wanted to work here but could only commit to a few hours a week, I would offer to buy her a cup of coffee and give her a tour of the lab instead," she adds.

Abu Sa'ada, the division commander, had the 24th Armored Brigade as the divisional reserve, but he could only commit it in case of an Israeli penetration.

Abaqa, despite his earlier promises of assistance, was in the process of facing another threat, an invasion in Khorasan by Mongols from Turkestan, and so could only commit a small force for the Holy Land, which did little but brandish the threat of an invasion along the Syrian frontier in October 1269.

The nature of the intervention to be experimented prevented us from identifying specific stopping rules and we could only commit ourselves to submitting any possible problems to the ethical committee.

He'd heard it said that every suicide was a proxy for a murder that the perpetrator could only symbolically commit; every suicide a murder gone awry.

In the years that followed 1967 the number of convictions for gross indecency, an offence that could only be committed by consenting gay men, doubled.

That expansion was born of a single sentence in a Third Circuit opinion: "The 'under color of official right' language in the Hobbs Act repeats the common law definition of extortion, a crime which could only be committed by a public official, and which did not require proof of threat, fear, or duress". United States v. Kenny, 462 F.2d 1205, 1229, cert.

Science on a computer screen could be as exciting as a video game if we would only commit the resources to it.

The placing of feet on seats at the Hempel is an act that could only possibly be committed by the gauche or the self-confident.

Absurdly, the resolution does not name the party responsible for the gas attack, but Western governments and most independent groups say it could only have been committed by Syrian government forces.