The death penalty makes it possible for killing to be encompassed within the normal carrying out of a bureaucratic procedure, rather than remaining a transgression or a suspension of our ordinary commitments.
If it had been any ordinary commitment--a brow threading appointment, a hunger strike, a state dinner with Barack and Michelle--I would have totally bailed so that I could do my recap, but it was the opening of my mother's solo show at an art gallery in Brooklyn.
At the heart of the piece is Hans's mother, Irmgard, played by Penelope Wilton with dignity, passion and out-of-the-ordinary commitment.
I wish to make such an ordinary human commitment to you.
The quantifier account provides at best a criterion for ordinary or scientific commitment, but not the specifically ontological commitment of interest to metaphysicians.
For ordinary people juggling commitments, what could be better than deciding for yourself when you can and cannot work?
What one finds so moving about him is, instead, his capacity for self-examination and his commitment to ordinary life.
The conscientious defector may doubt the sincerity of American commitment to ordinary Iraqis, given their suffering under United States-backed sanctions.
That's why the Commission on Political Reform, the bipartisan group that conducted that congressional gridlock study, recommends that ordinary citizens make a commitment to volunteerism and education.
(For discussion of ontological commitment in ordinary language, see §4).
It's not clear whether ordinary thinking involves any commitment for or against temporal parts: some believe that it is neutral, while others believe that the default assumption is that things don't have temporal parts.
