Sentence examples for first committed the from inspiring English sources

It was at Rio that Mr. Bush's father first committed the United States to a global effort to reduce greenhouse gases.

It was Strauss-Kahn who first committed the IMF to Greece in 2010, after eurozone governments approached the organisation for help in devising a bailout.

This attempt to revive the non-identity problem does not affect the second of the former slaveholders "later" crimes, namely, their preventing their former slaves from exercising the rights guaranteed to all citizens; the former slaveholders could have committed that crime without having first committed the crime of slavery.

There was no indication why Sikhs were attacked, and no one has claimed responsibility for the massacre -- the first committed against the minority Sikhs in a decade of fighting in Kashmir.

When Labor first committed to the 45% reduction several Coalition frontbenchers, including the environment minister, Greg Hunt, said Labor's plan would cost the economy $600bn.

As the 1978 Alma Ata Declaration first committed to (27) and the 2008 Commission on Social Determinants of Health affirmed (28), action on the social determinants of health is essential to alleviate the gross inequalities in health that exist around the world.

Polio eradication is an extraordinary and ambitious goal that has been intensely pursued 'for over 20 years, since the World Health Assembly first committed to global eradication efforts in the year 1988.

Vermont scored the game's first points, and UCLA missed the first shot and committed the first foul.

In concept, mesodermal cells first commit to the hematopoietic lineage before giving rise to HSCs.

This reaction is the first committing step in the pathway and catalyzed by Acetyl-CoA Carboxylase (ACCase).

For the second, he committed the company to head-to-head competition with the best consumer-products company in the world: Procter & Gamble.