Sentence examples for has failed to commit from inspiring English sources

"The state Department of Transportation agrees that it needs to be done but has failed to commit any money".

Jeremy Hunt, the Health Secretary said: "Ed Miliband will threaten core cancer services because he has failed to commit the additional £8bn the NHS says it needs.

Despite assurances from our commissioner of health, the state has failed to commit the resources needed to effectively protect New Yorkers from avoidable harm in hospitals and nursing homes.

For example, this year the world's nations are set to meet in New York to agree a substantial set of universal goals for sustainable development, but the parallel process to finance them has failed to commit the new resources necessary to make them a reality.

A potential hire has failed to commit, seeking more time to evaluate whether Berlin should now be her focus instead.

Biden himself has been teasing the possibility of a run, but so far has failed to commit.

But the Bush administration had failed to commit enough ground troops.

Princip was arrested on the spot, having failed to commit suicide with a cyanide capsule that was out of date.

Mr. Pershing's Chinese counterpart, Su Wei, hit back, saying developed countries had failed to commit to substantial reductions in carbon emissions while making unfair demands of developing nations.

Paul Ronalds, the chief executive of Save the Children – the child welfare organisation that formerly worked on Nauru – condemned Turnbull's speech, saying he had failed to commit Australia to any meaningful action to address the global issue of forced migration.

How can it be that television's great purveyor of baronial imagery — the sweeping shots of mist-covered dells and manor houses, the close-ups of blushed cheeks at the ball — had failed to commit itself fully to the novelist as attached to her property fetish as she was to her moral vision of love?