With the clubs free of commitments this week, the national team is afforded an opportunity to offer further evidence of their progress in the friendly against South Africa at Pittodrie on Wednesday.
Meanwhile established film or television actors who find themselves in a career lull after a few lackluster movies or a flop show, or maybe just with a summer or fall season free of commitments, streak east to Broadway every season to burnish their reputations.
Or is it the case that workplaces haven't woken up to the benefits of an experienced workforce who are free of commitments at home?
The contention that Israel was free of any commitment not to kill Mr. Arafat was rejected by Secretary of State Colin L. Powell on Friday.
There was always something a little disingenuous about Stewart's insistence that he is a centrist, free of ideological commitment to anything except truth and sanity.
But the thinking among the show's executives, that person said, is that Ms. Heigl wants to be free of the commitment to pursue more feature film roles.
A would-be relativist about morality needs to decide whether his view grants the existence of some absolute moral facts, or whether it is to be a pure relativism, free of any commitment to absolutes.
The important feature of single-abstraction identity principles of the kind on which we are focusing is that they are free of ontological commitment.
We can then have a neo-Russellian theory of the contents of the attitudes and semantics of singular terms like proper names, indexicals, and demonstratives that respects Fregean intuitions about the truth-values of (1 -(4) and is free of a commitment to unarticulated constituents.
But, then again, it is also worryingly short on specifics and suspiciously free of concrete commitments.
"Please keep your calendar free of any commitments during this month," it said.
