Sentence examples for instead of committing to from inspiring English sources

Instead of committing to a second home, they committed to each other and got married.

Next time, just admit that you don't remember someone, instead of committing to dinner.

Was I also a hoarder, collecting distractions instead of committing to what I already had?

Why wasn't he forcing this same point a couple of years ago, instead of committing to Labour's spending targets?

Joseph Gagnon of the Peterson Institute for International Economics suggests that, instead of committing to mortgage purchases, the Fed could target the mortgage rate for a time.

The fear among supporters of the current strategy is that the priority in some NATO capitals — and among some in Washington — is getting out of an unpopular war, instead of committing to a patient, sustainable transition to Afghan government control.

Instead of committing itself to simply meet all of the 15 return-to-flight recommendations, the group said, NASA should have systematically analyzed the goals and decided which were most important and most attainable, and set priorities.

Instead of committing yourself to eating fewer carbs or hitting the gym, commit yourself to pay a big fine if you don't hit your weight goal.

When I was 21, I weighed 58 pounds and, instead of committing me to another round of inpatient eating disorder treatment, my hopeless, powerless, frustrated friends and family resigned to watch me die.

But instead of committing himself to a specific suite of canvases, he made more than 30 large works of varying sizes.

The only "nakba," or catastrophe, the Palestinian people should be observing is the reality that had they accepted the United Nations declaration of a Palestinian state in 1948, they could have been enjoying the fruits of a vigorous, prosperous, democratic state for the past 63 years (like their neighbors in Israel) instead of committing themselves to death by suicide bombings and economic chaos.