Sentence examples for efforts to commit the from inspiring English sources
Then he became chairman of the International Relations Committee, where he led successful efforts to commit the United States to invest $5 billion over five years in combating H.I.V. and AIDS around the world.
The Center for Victims of Torture provides comprehensive care for victims of government-sponsored torture, conducts research and training, and undertakes policy efforts to commit the U.S. and other institutions to work against torture and aid torture survivors.
I was one of many who warned before the 2012 election that our task immediately upon Obama's re-election would be to defeat his efforts to commit the Great Betrayal.
Post, wrote, "that this kind of talk by a 'high' official amounts to psychological warfare on the President, in an effort to commit the U.S., in the hopes of deterring the Communists, to action the president himself refused to agree to in advance".
The unions played a decisive role, first by assuring the new doctrine's acceptance within the party and then by destroying any chance of its success as economic policy.I recall how at the party conference of 1953, trade-union power crushed the effort to commit the party to further nationalisation.
The Model Penal Code and several American state codes, however, provide for an affirmative defense if it can be shown that the actor "abandoned his effort to commit the crime or otherwise prevented its commission, under circumstances manifesting a complete and voluntary renunciation of his criminal purpose".
It makes sense to believe that criminals will minimize their time and effort to commit the crime by selecting targets closer to their usual places of residence or places familiar to them.
What needs to be emphasized is that Obama chose Geithner, Lew, and Daley as his principal advisors on his effort to commit the "Grand Betrayal" in July 2011.
An outlandish plot to attack the 91 Freeway is just the latest in several aborted efforts to commit terrorism at transportation hubs, law enforcement authorities say.
Prior research suggests that three SCP techniques are particularly salient in preventing maritime piracy: Increasing the Perceived Effort to Commit Piracy, Increasing the Perceived Risk to Commit Piracy, and Reducing the Anticipated Rewards of Piracy.
