Sentence examples for hard commitments from inspiring English sources

They're treated sort of the same in this process, so clearly nothing can be done in the long run about climate change if we say, "China, do your best and the rest of us will make real hard commitments". Something has to be done in terms of them committing to take action.

"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.

A spokesman for Murkowski said the administration's announcement "was less a plan than an acknowledgment that these needs must be addressed, falling short of any hard commitments made".

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).

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.

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.

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 won a hard commitment from the Palestinian leader, Yasir Arafat, to eliminate all references to Israel's destruction from the Palestinian national charter.