Sentence examples for counter to the commitment from inspiring English sources

Speaking for the European Union, its foreign policy chief, Javier Solana, said Friday that the Israeli plan to expand Maale Adumim "runs counter to the commitment by parties involved to abstain from any unilateral action that could affect a final solution" to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

Legalization also runs counter to the Democrats' commitment to education.

It said: "We believe that investing in fossil fuel companies runs completely counter to the strong commitments made by all UK vice-chancellors to reduce the higher education sector's climate impacts".

The proposal was condemned by Cummings, who said it would run counter to the longstanding Conservative commitment to enshrine the independence of academies from policies set by the education department.

It said the laws were counter to the state's commitment to the recommendations of the royal commission into Aboriginal deaths in custody and that the only "genuinely acceptable option" was "they should be repealed in view of their manifest faults and in a gesture of commitment to Indigenous concerns".

Allowing that would run counter to the state's commitment to responsible implementation and send just the wrong message," said David Postman, a spokesman for Inslee.

This runs counter to the whole idea of pre-commitment, of course — if you get to start every month saying you'll start going to the gym next month, what's the point?

But for supporters of the pipeline -- including TransCanada, which says delays have added $1 billion to the cost of the $7 billion project -- denying a pipeline permit would run counter to Obama's stated commitment to job creation and an "all of the above" energy policy that includes continued development of oil, gas and even coal resources.

A momentary STD scare made her bristle at the thought of active experimentation, which seemed counter to her desire for commitment, anyway.

He says he was "completely disheartened" by the prime minister's national security statement last month, which was widely perceived to question the commitment of Muslim leaders to countering the threat of terrorism.

Reagan's pollster Richard Wirthlin urged him not to go, but Reagan angrily countered that once the commitment had been made, he couldn't back out.