Sentence examples for resist committing from inspiring English sources

The whips' office had its eye on me after I added my signature to a letter, back in 2002, warning the then Chancellor, Gordon Brown, to resist committing to abolishing the pound.

He feels his dad repeatedly abandoned him and his twin sister, Dana, during their childhood because he could not resist committing petty crimes that kept getting him sent to jail.

Unlike last season, when the networks basically ran away from reality in their presentations to advertisers, because they feared advertisers would resist committing money to reality television, they are embracing what Randy Falco, the group president of NBC, called "the right kind of reality -- upscale reality".

I had resisted committing, but I knew I was going to cave.

Russia has made sympathetic signals but has resisted committing itself to anything but token cuts.

But Mr. Shanker still resisted committing his union's kitty to the city's rescue.

Beyond that, she resisted committing herself to any direction for the set, though Mr. Scofield hardly seemed concerned.

Mr. Franks's preference for compromise was also evident in 1998, when he long resisted committing himself on the Republican House leadership drive to impeach President Clinton.

The Iranian government resisted committing to the project, apparently unwilling to have its players perform if Israelis were included in the program.

German leaders like Wolfgang Schäuble, the finance minister, have resisted committing more money, however, because they fear southern European countries would feel less pressure to fix the underlying weaknesses in their economies.

Many analysts see the call as a sign that Germany was resisting committing to measures that could mean sharing the cost of bailing out banks in member states with weaker economies.