Sentence examples for say to commit to from inspiring English sources

Many spoke of signs of economic improvement — a friend who had at last found a job, a daughter who had sold her house — but said they also remained cautious about what may be ahead and reluctant about whether it was really time, say, to commit to buying a new car or more insurance.

In an e-mail a few days later Don clarified: You wind up seeing so many things now that are just sort of about nothing; all wishy-washy and timid and defensively self-ironic because it's more of a scary risk to actually have something to say, to commit to the ideas.

"Those are my plans," he said, "to commit to this way of life for the rest of my life".

Lord Heseltine said: "To commit to a referendum about a negotiation that hasn't begun, on a timescale you cannot predict, on an outcome that's unknown, where Britain's appeal as an inward investment market would be the centre of the debate, seems to me like an unnecessary gamble".

For example, some theories which posit lexical orderings are said to commit to "incomparabilities". Kant's thesis that rational agents have a dignity and not a price is often taken to be a thesis about a kind of incommensurability, as well.

We've been told, as the Times likes to say, to "commit a physically impossible act".

"The biggest challenge in adapting the novel," Mr. Cusack says, "was to commit to direct address".

The secret, Kid Millions said, is to commit to a creative vision while maintaining a healthy life outside the claustrophobic world of rock.

So, to make it more balanced, I say universities have to commit to athletes' education for life.

Arriving at the summit, the German Chancellor Angela Merkel said Greece had to commit to reforms to secure new loans.

Subway, the fast food sandwich chain, also said it expected to commit to the city's salt guidelines at its nearly 23,000 stores across the country.