Serving as a judge is public service, and public service means commitment to the community.
It meant commitment in individual lives, in families, cities and nations.
In 1994, IKEA featured a gay couple shopping for a dining-room table ("a leaf means commitment").
"We showed aspects in our game that people are not used to seeing from us; that means commitment, desire, defending," Wenger said.
Today he promised Mr. Bush that "we are a friend, we are neighbors, we are partners, and we want to make very clear that this means commitment all the way, and that we will keep our commitments".
In business Spanish most words and phrases have a precise English equivalent, though foreigners should beware of a couple of false friends: renta (income) and compromiso, which usually means commitment, though it also sometimes means compromise.
"That phrase 'staying in character' to me really means commitment, focus, and for a role like this that's so intense and challenging and extreme in a lot of ways, it demanded my full attention," Mr. Leto said.
and where, worst of all, Mr Orban's handshake with Russian President Vladimir Putin in January means commitment to an ill-conceived nuclear expansion - a radioactive stone around the necks of future generations of Hungarians.
Every mentally ill person, housed or unhoused, deserves appropriate care and treatment for their illness, even if that appropriate care and treatment means commitment in a mental institution.
The vote would have meant commitment, it would have demanded that he take a position, and Rubio devoutly wished to avoid that.
