His photograph appears in no junior or senior high school yearbook; one friend said he dabbled in drugs, then went "straight edge," even drawing crosses on his hand to indicate his commitment to an abstemious lifestyle.
The culture secretary also indicated his commitment to hand part of the licence fee to outside organisations to make programming such as children's TV, arts coverage and local news.
In a marked departure from careful public statements made ahead of the publication of a white paper on the next BBC charter, the culture secretary also indicated his commitment to hand part of the licence fee to outside organisations to make programming such as children's TV, arts coverage and local news.
In addition, Elias Zerhouni, director of NIH, has, on a number of occasions, indicated his commitment to reducing the age at which investigators become independent, as well as his support for young scientists to move into nontraditional careers that bring physics, chemistry, mathematics, and the computing sciences to bear on problems in the life sciences, biology, and medicine.
Mr. McCain said that the leader of the Supreme Council of the Armed Forces, Field Marshal Mohamed Hussein Tantawi, had "again indicated his absolute commitment to a transition to a civilian government at the earliest possible time after the elections have taken place".
By using the first-person pronoun, the prime minister may want to indicate the strength of his commitment to a "vision", but often the result is to weaken it.
In Wittgenstein's definition, by contrast, no single item of vocabulary takes over the role of indicating ontological commitment.
Russell's second definition — our [2] — has the effect of shifting the burden of indicating ontological commitment from the word 'exists' to the existential quantifier.
Based on this analysis we have constructed measures for the individual degree of ethnic persistence, indicating the commitment to the country of origin, and of assimilation, reflecting the commitment to and identification with the host country.
Thus, rather than indicating our commitment to cases of resultant moral luck, our differential treatment of successful and unsuccessful murderers indicates our different epistemic situations with respect to each.
