But, four years on, government commitments are still dependent on donor funding.
How do we get people to restrain government commitments now so that debt down the road won't be so ruinous?
Hence the worries that the climate-change bill will in the end prove as fudgeable as other government commitments.
"Where is the immigration bill?" he asked and where was legislation to fulfill government commitments on directly elected police representatives.
These benefactors usually acknowledge, as Arnold did, that "private dollars cannot in the long term replace government commitments".
Hanci revealed that sustained economic growth does not necessarily translate into government commitments to tackle hunger and undernutrition.
Finally, the electric car movement was given a lift by improvements in technology and by government commitments to develop the infrastructure needed to support electric vehicles.
Either the developers have lost confidence in government commitments to support them or their costs have turned out higher than expected.
Few agencies adequately show the results they are getting with the taxpayer dollars they spend, and too many significant government commitments and obligations are not fully disclosed.
Any such landslide in prices was likely to test government commitments to free-market dynamics and resist the temptation to intervene to protect asset values.
In its own initiative, the Department for Business will publish its own manifesto, Small Business, GREAT Ambition, highlighting government commitments to help small firms.
