Sentence examples for overt commitment from inspiring English sources

Nevertheless, with fee-paying parents making an "overt commitment" to the value of education, independent schools have to place a premium on communication, he adds.

Bryant, certainly not one to make concessions – at least not willingly – to age or anything else, no doubt has also noticed the league's overt commitment to marketing its next generation of stars.

The United States, however, persisted in making demands that Japan could not concede: renunciation of the Tripartite Pact (which would have left Japan diplomatically isolated); the withdrawal of Japanese troops from China and from Southeast Asia (a humiliating retreat from an overt commitment of four years' standing); and an open-door regime for trade in China.

An overt commitment to JCI processes and principles was made at the beginning of Dr. Khleif's term as DG.

At present, there are indicators of further innovation ('to provide quality care as close to the family as possible') in view of the strong foundation for realising key components of chronic care services (notably community and family involvement in patient 'self-management') and overt commitment of the government (including shifting responsibilities for PHC operations from the MoH to MCDMCH).

Ms. Walker, whose work skirts any such overt commitments, was accused of pandering to a white art market with an appetite for images of black abjection.

Recent years have seen "an overt political commitment" surfacing amid the artist's interest in celebrity, according to Hensher.

Like other poets who first made their names in the 30s (though with a particular Northern Irish slant, and less enthusiasm than some for overt political commitment), he developed a style that mixed evocation with assessment.

But the most worthwhile of recent movies reflect the tension of a rich range of ideologically ambiguous or indeterminate events—even when they're movies of overt political commitment, the scripts don't line things up too consistently, and the director's eye shows more, and sees further, than what the director wants to say.

The current health system tends to place overt emphasis on a commitment to the biomedical model; too much is invested in this model, yet it tends to avoid the personal dimension (36).

Yet President Lyndon B. Johnson used the event to persuade Congress to pass the Tonkin Gulf Resolution, which was the overt beginning of an American commitment that lasted eleven years.