Sentence examples for hard commitment from inspiring English sources

Yet as China's economy has slowed, the target has morphed into a hard commitment that guides and, critics argue, distorts policy decisions (see chart).

He praised the pharmaceutical industry for making a hard commitment, but added, "We might be able to get $100 billion out of them, or more".

It may be optimistic to assume that 20-year averages are the right yardstick, but you get the point: Cadbury investors have little to fear from independence, especially now that the management has made a hard commitment to lift the dividend by 10% a year.

The UK and our EU partners are also ready to agree to a second commitment period of the Kyoto protocol, as long as there is a hard commitment from the other major economies to a comprehensive global legal framework and to complete negotiations on it as soon as possible.

We find this take-up is largely driven by a response to the ability to label remittances for education, rather than to the hard commitment feature of directly paying schools.

These range from the soft commitment of simply labeling remittances as being for education, to the hard commitment of having funds directly paid to a school and the student's educational performance monitored.

"The hard commitments are around transparency," she said.

These job projections, however, are estimates and not hard commitments.

"Until American Dream becomes a reality," he said, "it is difficult to get retailers to make hard commitments".

Not without money from the west, at least, and hard commitments of cash for the future have not been made.

The primary care standards and warm words about joint working mean little, and the scattergun examples of local progress do not add up to a coherent offer – residents need hard commitments.