"This system seems to provide a quick and easy solution under the guise of a certain commitment to the environment, but in no way does it allow for the radical change which present circumstances require," he writes.
Schaar's paradigmatic example is the United States, whose citizens "were bonded together not by blood or religion, not by tradition or territory, not by the walls and traditions of a city, but by a political idea … by a covenant, by dedication to a set of principles and by an exchange of promises to uphold and advance certain commitments" (Schaar 1981, 291).
A certain number of nations are going to make certain commitments to redesign their accounting.
Consistently polling at about 10% (compared with the SPD at about 23%) and led by former SPD bigwig Oskar Lafontaine, on foreign policy the Left calls for a withdrawal from Nato, a curtailing of certain EU commitments and a reduction in military spending, among other goals.
In general, commitments to abstracta are concomitant with certain commitments to concreta, and inseparable from them, regardless of our ways of conceptualizing.[47] Carnap was a deflationist about traditional ontological disputes, such as whether numbers exist, or physical objects exist.
Sandel advocates (v), the claim that certain roles that we find ourselves in, understood as involving special obligations, are 'constitutive commitments.' The person is not free to make all of her own commitments, because the self cannot be understood separately from certain commitments, such as those arising from family or political community.
Certain commitments are very tightly bound up with a person's sense of who he is, while others are not.
I have certain commitments.
Based on its knowledge on its goals and practical possibilities, an agent may make certain commitments.
