Sentence examples for jointly committed from inspiring English sources

In a rare specific commitment they jointly committed $1.3 billion to a new global health fund proposed by the United Nations to help the fight against AIDS, malaria and tuberculosis.Summit leaders are often criticised for the vague language in which they couch their conclusions.

According to her theory, "an understanding of joint commitment and a readiness to be jointly committed are necessary if one is to accrue political obligations, as is common knowledge of these in the population in question.

If individuals already have to be jointly committed in some way in order to enter into a joint commitment, however, either a vicious circle or an infinite regress seems to ensue.

Once jointly committed the parties are obligated to one another to conform to the commitment, and have the corresponding standing to demand fulfillment of the obligation.

To repeat, it is not the shutdown itself that threatens the unraveling of our being jointly committed in this way.

"BP and OSHA are jointly committed to workplace safety and a strong relationship with OSHA is of great importance to BP," he said in a statement.

Bank of America and Checkfree said in April that they would jointly commit $45 million over the next two years to advertise online billing.

(He's actually in bed with a flight attendant, procured by Mom.) Sante and Kenny's adventures, even the murders they jointly commit, are played partly for laughs, which may understandably offend the victims' loved ones.

Instead of waiting for a treaty, both sides could demonstrate their good will right now, and make the world a lot safer, by jointly committing to taking their entire arsenals off hair-trigger alert.

Ms. del Ponte said the sealed indictment had been drawn up last April 7 and that it accused Ms. Plavsic of jointly committing crimes with Momcilo Krajisnik, a wartime speaker of the Bosnian Serb Parliament, who was arrested last April.

But however individuals express their readiness to jointly commit, their expression must be common knowledge to all: it must be something that is so taken for granted in the sense that everyone, or most everyone, knows that everyone else knows about it.