President Obama's desire to avoid large new ground commitments in the Middle East is, in many respects, understandable, given the experiences of some 15 years of war.
Western intervention of the scale and scope required to defeat ISIS will not happen, given popular aversion to further ground commitments of the type that failed to stabilize Afghanistan and Iraq already, and the elite's political correctness and complacency about the true risks presented by a caliphate.
Just as 19th-century Mormons found themselves in profound conflict with the United States over the issue of polygamy, so could the theologically grounded commitment of today's LDS church to one-man-one-woman marriage place its members on a collision course with the 21st-century American mainstream, which increasingly accepts same-sex marriage.
But in his later works, Kant explicitly identifies true virtue with a rationally grounded commitment to morality, not with an initially pathological feeling of affection which has been universalized and cooled.
Rather than merely affirming abstract principle, they worked through an on-the-ground commitment to freedom of expression along with the cultivation of diverse points of view and a sense of belonging.
Our religiously grounded commitment to justice calls us to fight for safe, legal abortion care because we know that lack of access leads to further injustice.
Environment Australia's major on-ground commitments from its $A27.1 million Bushcare funding program included i) the direct seeding of 10,000 ha of degraded land, ii) the planting of 4.5 million seedlings, and iii) the erection of 12,000 km of protective fencing (Wilkins et al., 2003).
"Unprecedented deployment of boots on the ground and commitment to the fence," explained an aide close to the talks, speaking anonymously to talk candidly about continuing private discussions.
Yet to succeed, metro working needs to be founded on solid ground with commitment, a clear strategy, a realistic understanding of the potential of the place and plans for putting it into action.
Although our findings were organized around two different activity clusters, there is also common ground and commitment between the two clusters such that coordination, cooperation and integration across the entire PHC sector may be achievable.
