Most of these agreements involved familiar commitments by the Chinese to take stronger action against piracy and counterfeiting of trademarks and of software, movies and other intellectual property.
"Although most of the ideas and positions set out in the paper are already quite familiar, the commitment to establishing a National Convention on Employment and Labour Relations is interesting and of particular relevance to the STUC".
Mr. Gitlin and others say the weirdest element of the current transition is perhaps its most familiar element: the commitment by both sides to bipartisanship, that I-love-you, It's-in-the-mail, Money-doesn't-matter cliche of politics.
Quine (1985, p. 167) charges fine-grained conceptions of the relata with invoking poorly individuated and unfamiliar entities, and recommends extremely coarse (spatiotemporal) individuation as principled and familiar in ontic commitments.
"Never again," Lo Schiavo thundered, and anyone familiar with his unbending Jesuit commitment to integrity knew to take him at his word.
The government's draft legislation, published a couple of weeks ago, performs a now familiar U-turn on their commitment, and accelerates the equalisation timetable to 65 by 2 years, to start in 2016, to be completed by 2018.
According to sources within the government consulted by Reuters who are familiar with the situation, the commitment to pushing extradition forward is now clear.
One familiar gloss on "the ontological commitments of a theory" takes this to include only "what the theory says there is".
Five and half million Americans work at the U.S. operations of foreign companies - including a wide variety of familiar brands with long-time commitments to the U.S. economy, such as Siemens, Verizon, Anheuser- Busch, Dove and Nestlé.
Although familiar bonds between urban landscape, commitments to others and dreams for the future have been ruptured, other geographies of responsibility may yet take shape.
