Sentence examples for modest commitments from inspiring English sources
The question that determines whether or not it can deliver even Australia's modest commitments to reducing greenhouse gases and combating global warming.
She moved from utopianism ("When you want to change everything, you're forced to oppress") to more modest commitments — Bosnia, human rights — and from a relativism that could forgive Communist regimes their little transitional problems to an absolutism requiring that all societies honor certain basic freedoms.
Modest commitments to improved education at the secondary and post-secondary levels, combined with better tax policies represent exceptional investments in our American way of life.
"People are looking for a more modest expenditure and a more modest commitment of their time," he said.
Mr Sedwill – the Home Office's most senior civil servant – said Britain was on track to meet Mr Cameron's relatively modest commitment.
She acknowledged that the American government's contribution of $50 million was a modest commitment for a problem with enormous implications for billions of people worldwide.
It warns that if current trends continue it is unlikely the world will meet its "modest commitment" to get every child into school by 2015.
But how much could anyone trust promises from a body that struggles even to meet its modest commitment to have two "battle groups" of about 1,500 men ready for deployment at short notice?The climate would change if Sweden, the Nordic "big brother", moved towards NATO.
If a modest commitment of African troops to shore up a shaky cease-fire in Congo reinforces the political will of the contending parties to move forward with their own peace agreement, something positive may be achieved, not just for Congo but for all of Africa.
And I have a modest commitment to leveraged timber.
The White House has developed a plan to resettle 10,000 Syrian refugees over the course of the fiscal year, a modest commitment compared to those of U.S. allies like Germany.
