Sentence examples for reduce commitments from inspiring English sources

Before asking for more troops, Mr. Rumsfeld said, the Pentagon is trying to reduce commitments in Bosnia and Kosovo, as well as in Sinai, and may reconfigure the way American forces are assigned in Germany and South Korea.

Learn to say no to other things if you need to and reduce commitments elsewhere so you have the room.

Progressive taxation and redistribution would offset labor's position of weakness whilst a limited state would reduce commitments in a stagnating economy.

Some see the disaster in Japan as a boon for renewable energy; others worry that it will reduce commitments to clean energy.

In the face of increased demand for humanitarian response, either increase resources or reduce commitments UNICEF's commitments to the CCC sectors are extremely ambitious.

UNICEF should take a strategic decision on the best of two options: i)        to lobby for greater resources to achieve CCC commitments ii)       to reduce commitments in CCC sectors.

But doing that would almost certainly involve the kinds of politically difficult decisions that Congress and the Pentagon have tended to resist, from canceling weapons programs to closing bases to reducing commitments overseas to restructuring the services themselves.

The provision to include biological sinks into national accounting (and by this potentially alleviate emission reducing commitments from other sectors) was received as concession to facilitate the Parties' approval of the Kyoto Protocol (KP) and their national commitments [1].

Many traditional providers of Overseas Development Assistance are reducing commitments in the context of the Eurocrisis and its ensuing wake of financial turmoil.

Kodak also said profit margins rose, owing in part to a significantly reduced commitment to making cameras and film.

The company insists that the sale is not a sign of a reduced commitment to the Gulf of Mexico.