Sentence examples for present commitments from inspiring English sources

"Some developing countries will present commitments [on curbing greenhouse gas emissions] that are partly conditional, ie depending on international financial support".

Will they retain their present commitments in substantial measure, and thus constitute a major force for social change, as they climb the occupational hierarchies?

Whether such spending can be maintained after 2008, when the present commitments end, is a question no party wants to address.On education, however, the picture is much patchier.

We may also use a portion of the net proceeds from this offering for the acquisition of, or investment in, technologies, solutions or businesses that complement our business, although we have no present commitments or agreements to enter into any such acquisitions or investments.

Not according to what it told both the government and investors: "We may also use a portion of the net proceeds for the acquisition of, or investment in, technologies, solutions or businesses that complement our business, although we have no present commitments or agreements to enter into any acquisitions or investments".

Murphy seems right to suggest that large-scale problems requiring beneficence should be conceived as cooperative projects, but his limit on individual obligations seems unlikely to have a practical effect of increasing international aid and the like beyond present commitments and levels.

The some $70 million recently slashed by Congress from the Army Corps of Engineers' budget for the New Orleans district reveals the lamentable position of our present commitment.

Brown links this, interestingly, with Flaubert's preference for remembered love over present commitment: the older man would mope delightedly in front of the shuttered Marseilles hotel where he was bedded as a youth by the "voluptuous" owner, Eulalie Foucaud.

Asked about Gen. Sharif's more aggressive targeting of the Pakistani Taliban, Brohi said she does not doubt the army's present commitment to fighting the extremists.

The question now for the BBC is what happens to the other Top Gear presenters Richard Hammond and James May, both of whom have presenting commitments on the BBC outside of Top Gear.

The team then paired these trends with historical changes in the local economy to shed light on the feasibility of the Pittsburgh area's present climate commitments.