Sentence examples for economic commitment from inspiring English sources

"We didn't want to make an economic commitment somewhere without knowing where we really wanted to be".

Reunification has been a rocky road for Germany, but the continuing political and economic commitment to its success has been astonishing to watch.

He said terrorism should be fought not only with bombs but also with "a courageous and resolute political, diplomatic and economic commitment to relieving situations of oppression and marginalization which facilitate the designs of terrorists".

General Petraeus also cautioned that security in Afghanistan would not improve if the only initiative was the deployment of more American troops; he said that Afghanistan required a diplomatic and economic commitment as well.

It is the chance to reassert America's military and economic commitment to three treaty allies, one prospective "strategic partner" (Malaysia) and to the region as a whole, as it struggles with the implications of China's rapid rise.That reassurance is needed all the more after America's failure to intervene in Syria and, especially, its failure to contain Russian expansionism in Ukraine.

The United States is now well on its way to a renewables-crushing, decades-long shale-gas bridge with an economic commitment to exporting this non-renewable domestic fuel and, absent dramatic market changes, there's not much Congressman Markey or anyone else can do to stop it.

"IT SEEMS likely that Americans are underestimating the economic commitments involved in a war with Iraq," says William Nordhaus, an economics professor at Yale University.

Extreme volatility can increase general anxiety and discourage economic commitments.

It has repeatedly delayed disbursing funds until Moscow fulfilled its economic commitments.

In one way, says Alfredo Rangel, a former security adviser to Mr Samper, Mr Pastrana can take comfort from the fact that talks are unlikely to bear early fruit: "At the moment, the government couldn't afford to make the economic commitments needed for a lasting peace.

But many Afghan officials believe that the economic commitments, like the strategic agreement reached with America in April, show they will not be abandoned after the majority of NATO troops leave in 2014.Such donations were not a foregone conclusion, given a backdrop of slow global growth, war weariness, and frustration at Kabul's inability to tackle corruption.