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Her lawyers had sought a commitment from the Justice Department that it would ask the sentencing judge to spare her prison.

The Europeans had sought a commitment to ensuring that renewable energy sources would account for 15percentt of the world's total energy production by 2010.

Kohlberg Kravis had sought a $1.5 billion commitment, but that would have pushed Oregon above its limit of keeping 13percentt of assets in private equity, a spokesman said.

People familiar with the talks between Fraschilla and St. John's said yesterday that he had sought an additional commitment from St . Johns via a contract extension or a raise in the wake of Arizona State's interest.

Gazprom had sought a repayment of $1.95bn.

In recent talks, Chile has sought an American commitment to sell such technology if it is obtained by Chile's neighbors, he said.

Jeremy Corbyn had sought major commitments on issues such as workers' rights and wanted them enshrined in law.

But Ms. Snyder showed no signs that she wavered in her confidence and commitment to winning the job she had sought since retiring as a judge in 2003.

Simon also mentioned that Obama had once referred to the Islamic State as "the JV team" and had sought to scale down American military commitments abroad.

The UK had sought to abolish the EU's historic commitment to ever closer union and change the definition of the euro as the EU's currency.

The resulting "Bali Action Plan" contains no binding commitments, which European countries had sought and the United States fended off.