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President Hamid Karzai issued the decree three years ago as part of a raft of commitments to international donors, but the lawmaker and activist Fawzia Kofi wanted to pass it in Parliament to prevent any future president from reversing it.
One of the most vocal champions of corporate target setting is the global drinks firm Diageo, which in 2008 laid out a raft of commitments to achieve by this year.
At a U.S.-China joint summit on climate change yesterday in Los Angeles, California, leaders from Beijing to Boston signed on to a raft of commitments meant to accelerate the pace of reductions promised at a summit last November.
This makes it one of the world's largest fields, and theoretically makes it feasible for Turkmenistan to fulfil a raft of commitments to supply gas not only to China but to Russia, Iran and even the European Union.
I knew I had a limited amount of time with him as he had a whole raft of media commitments that afternoon.
The terms of the deal could involve a formal coalition or a looser pact involving the Liberal Democrats remaining on the opposition benches, but backing a minority Conservative government tied to a raft of policy commitments to the smaller party.
And if Clegg's rhetoric to the rightwing press about "vast" tax cuts (which not a single frontbencher echoed on the conference stage this week) is to be matched by hard, firm commitments, he is going to have to find a raft of existing spending commitments to ditch.
This requires a lot of commitment.
A raft of former spending commitments have been ditched, such as a higher state pension and free care for the elderly.
There are two ways of looking at the government's brutal arm-twisting which imposed a 16% cut on the BBC as well transferring to it a raft of departmental spending commitments.
In addition to the civic center, TCIO announced a raft of "major corporate commitments" to the area — including a Microsoft plan to establish a Technology Development Centre in the area.
