Sentence examples for irrational commitment from inspiring English sources

A second group is defined by those who commit violence due to an irrational commitment to religious or political ideological beliefs, who might be the army psychiatrist, Nidal Malik Hasan at Fort Hood, the mass murderer of the Norwegian Workers Youth Leaguee, Anders Breivik or Timothy McVeigh of the Oklahoma City bombing.

And he warned that the Tories' "irrational" commitment to free schools could starve council-run schools of funding.

The Tory proposal came as the Lib Dem leader Nick Clegg warned the Tories' "irrational" commitment to free schools could starve council-run schools of funding.

The deeper objection emerges from the final paragraph of the Witherspoon task force's four-page statement: the real problem turns out to be "an irrational commitment to unrestrained sexual expression," a "new federal orthodoxy concerning human sexuality".

It is, I believe, the closest thing some of us have to vocation, an almost irrational commitment to the accurate, powerful depiction of what we've felt, seen, believed, conceived and imagined.

Both are grounded in an irrational commitment to the idea that one's in-group is superior to other groups and, thus, that as an individual one is superior to other individuals.

In it, Havel predicted that in the next century the nation-state would cease to evoke the kind of emotional and irrational commitments it had in the past.

Markets don't solve all our problems, but they do not have much patience for an irrational, ideological commitment to techniques that don't deliver.

They do so, I believe, because of an irrational emotional commitment to rationality - one that renders them, ironically, impervious to both scientific evidence on how the political mind and brain work and to an accurate diagnosis of why their campaigns repeatedly fail".

Standing in the way of any progress will be two-state absolutists, who refuse to rethink and reëvaluate failed policy and strategy because of an irrational or ideological commitment to it.

They're being told that nothing is wrong with their irrational fear of commitment.