"historical commitment" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
You can use it to refer to a promise or agreement with a long tradition that continues today. For example, "The U.S. Constitution is a powerful symbol of our nation's historical commitment to protecting the rights of its citizens."
The family also said the accord "reflects their historical commitment to stand by their investments".
McDonnell Douglas executives became key players in the new company, and the McDonnell Douglas culture, averse to risk and obsessed with cost-cutting, weakened Boeing's historical commitment to making big investments in new products.
We are dismayed by Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg's proposal to renege on New York City's historical commitment to provide health benefits for Queens bus drivers (news article, June 25).
As Nina Shea, a former U.S. delegate to the U.N. Human Rights Commission, wrote in The Weekly Standard, the fact that so many Europeans could participate in the U.S. being voted out "reflects the abandonment of their historical commitment to human rights".
John D. Bond III, president of J. A. Jones Construction Company, said in a statement today in response to the revelation, "Let me make this as clear as I can make it: anyone who questions the patriotism of J. A. Jones Construction Company, its employees and our historical commitment to a free world is misguided and misinformed".
His Marxism involved a historical commitment.
The few statements that he has made sound remarkably like those of Secretaries past: he has reaffirmed America's historical commitments, whether to NATO or the U.N. or Japan.
In this paper, a preliminiary approach and general criteria for the building refurbishment, in relation to the architectural and historical commitments, are presented.
The social work profession's historical mission of commitment to a client's well-being must include a commitment to the safety of its own membership.
Ashram has an historical and successful commitment to promoting social inclusion and addressing unmet community needs.
Access to historical intrusion/failure data Commitment to IT hygiene The presence or absence of a solid knowledge management system.
