Sentence examples for expectation of commitment from inspiring English sources

The love affair found a bed elsewhere and continued uncertainly, pleasurably enough but without much expectation of commitment.

The logic is that a "marital norm" creates an expectation of commitment, helping to keep sexually active straight pairs faithful to each other in case a kid pops out; but calling a gay union a "marriage" could weaken that norm, since too few people regard gay relationships as models worth following.

In South Africa's conservative gender context, it is possible to interpret cohabiting as reflecting an unwillingness to commit to a partner, with such men being more likely to seek sex in a range of contexts where there is no expectation of commitment, especially where it is overtly or implicitly commodified.

Not underestimating young people, and treating everything we put on as a professional production with an expectation of, and commitment to, the highest quality production values.

Integration of results from this and other studies should further enable the development of future US GHG inventories that include disturbance attribution and full land use change accounting in expectation of post-2020 commitment requirements.

Perhaps as a class husbands would be more upset than ex-boyfriends, because they might have built up greater expectations of lifelong commitment.

▪ what were your expectations of time commitment before you started?

Having met quite a few of them, what struck me is the wide variety of backgrounds, ages, interests, expectations and intensity of commitment, from dedicated puzzlers to those who, like me, have another full-time occupation on top of the crossword work.

And they gave a lot of money — $30 million for the first three years, with the expectation of continuing that commitment, if not more, for years to come.

He noted uncertainty over whether a plebiscite would be held because of parliamentary opposition, but said the government had campaigned on it and after being re-elected had "the reasonable expectation of honouring this commitment".

(For those over 30 years old: hooking up is a casual sexual encounter with no expectation of future emotional commitment. Think of it as a one-night stand with someone you know).