"dual commitment" is a grammatically correct phrase that can be used in written English.
It describes the state of being committed to two different things at the same time. Example: As a working mother, I have a dual commitment to both my career and my family. It can be challenging to balance both, but I am determined to fulfill both my professional and personal responsibilities.
(The dual commitment is natural, since Mr. Holden was raised on the neighborhoods' border).
This strong dual commitment, if clarified and entrenched in our Constitution, could reassure most, though not all, of us.
Mr. Ratmansky has given them roles that wonderfully yoke their dual commitment to ballet classicism and to dramatic sincerity.
That dual commitment gave America some of its most astonishing scientific and human triumphs the Apollo moon landings, the Voyager and Cassini probes, the Mars Curiosity rover, the Hubble Space Telescope.
As an early member of the Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians, he embraced that organization's dual commitment to composition and improvisation, along with its openness to non-Western forms.
The nomination of Ryan, with his ostensibly seamless dual commitment to the teachings of both the Catholic Church and the church of Ayn Rand, means that religion in the 2012 election has taken an even more prominent role as the Republican party convention is held this week.
"I have noticed the mental impact of balancing these dual commitments, particularly with professional athletes who are off-contract at the end of an Olympic cycle," says Decker.
With his players spread around the world and on less financially lucrative contracts than the men, the 56-year-old coach is particularly sensitive to their dual commitments.
And now, the group of Bruce Springsteen fans who reconciled their dual commitments last Friday — the Passover holiday and a concert at Madison Square Garden — with a special "rock 'n' roll Seder" will be enshrined for posterity.
We applied theory on dual allegiance to multiple targets of commitment, in conjunction with person-organization fit theory, to explore the dynamics of organizational and professional commitment among scientists and engineers working in hybrid, research-focused organizations.
A single payer option is not just a less constitutionally restrictive means of providing public good, it is the only approach that is ultimately consistent with our dual constitutional commitments to a government empowered to pursue the common good and individuals shielded from interference in the expression of their religious commitments.
