Sentence examples for practical commitments from inspiring English sources

Significant to both Briggs's story and my own are the different ways in which communicative practices are understood by different social actors, especially as emotional and practical commitments are negotiated between ethnographer and field consultant.

This distinctive pairing — radical worldview, conventional practical commitments — helps explain Rorty's mixed reputation.

That self-understanding is implicit in all our practical commitments and priorities.

The heterogeneous infrastructure of the Internet constitutes and constrains geeks' everyday practical commitments.

While many people loathed both his philosophy and his practical commitments, more often he inspired partial allegiances.

These include a new international protocol on the investigation of rape and sexual violence and an agreement that the attacks constitute grave breaches of the Geneva Convention, as well as practical commitments to tackle the violence.

Buddhist thought and practice are said to have emerged out of sustained practical commitment to discovering and nullifying the roots of human suffering.

NATO's practical commitment is cheap and minimal: just four foreign fighter aircraft, based in Lithuania.

However, inside or outside the Brigades, the commitment, sometimes the practical commitment, of intellectuals is not in doubt.

This "humanitarian revolution" underlies the decline of violence since the 18th century, the Enlightenment values developing there directly precipitating a practical commitment to our shared humanity.

The state press watchdog also banned the weekly Irandokht (daughter of Iran) for "not meeting the conditions in the press law on practical commitment to the constitution".