And although rich countries, which have produced most greenhouse-gas emissions, should act first, Kyoto fails to impose commitments on poor countries, even though within decades India and China will be the biggest emitters.Kill Kyoto to save it?Optimists still insist that such flaws in Kyoto could be fixed by sincere negotiators willing to find clever ideas for compromise.
So the desire to be assured of entitlement to faith is not merely externally imposed by commitment to philosophical critical values: it is a demand internal to the integrity of theistic faith itself.
To test the effect of imposing a commitment cost on subjects' valuation, half of the sessions that promised delivery of the good 1 week later required up-front payment for the good while the other half of the sessions required payment of the good upon delivery.
It even, it has been argued, imposed an ecological commitment to their maintenance.
(Although one can see clearly here the stark contrast between Fodor's use of the term and that of Weber or Hayek, for whom the ability of the social scientist to provide something beyond merely causal explanation was what imposed the methodological commitment to the action-theoretic level of analysis).
The government will still meet the limit set at Kyoto, thanks to the move from coal to gas-fired power stations in the 1990s, but on current projections it will fall well short of its self-imposed commitment.
A self-imposed commitment to report on the progress of his research efforts to the Berlin Academy at regular intervals induced him to devise his own specific style of presentation that allowed him freely and creatively to combine elements of the philosophical essay with those of a scholarly exposition.
In 2002 the signatories to the convention agreed something similar, a splendid-sounding declaration that imposed no legal commitments.
In the referral procedure (which is the subject of this paper), more commitment is imposed.
According to the literature, it is especially when high levels of commitment are imposed by the work organisation, management techniques or enforced competition between staff that burnout due to physical and mental overload ensues.
But their A&M record contract tied them to huge touring and album commitments, and imposed musicians upon them.
