When I met Lefèvre in her office, she told me that she had thought of Millepied as a possible future director of the house a few years earlier, but had not imagined him as her successor when she announced her resignation, not least because he seemed committed to living in L.A.
At first, Mr Snowden seemed committed to staying in Hong Kong and fighting against extradition through local courts.
As for getting in, I don't know your politics, but if you seemed committed and willing to pitch in, I think you could pass even if you were fine with, say, regressive taxation.
In crime, he seemed committed to a law-and-order philosophy, leaving reform to parliament.
The platform is off to a slow start, but Google seems committed to putting in the time needed to help it slow-burn it's way to success – or it wants to do everything it can to give that impression ahead of Apple's big wearable reveal, which should happen next Tuesday.
The teachers didn't seem committed to working in the computer center, and I had grown frustrated with the dull incompetence that seemed to characterize so many of our interactions with the school personnel.
"The Westminster establishment... seems committed to keeping Scotland in the slow lane.
Another way of formulating the criticism is to say that computational theories seem committed to the existence in the mind of "homunculi," or "little men," to carry out the processes they postulate.
And because of the work of Norwegian mediators, negotiators on both sides seem committed to resolving conflicts in the peace process through committees and expert groups rather than by the piecemeal efforts of earlier negotiations.
Even as white supremacists make more noise and become more brazen as the deadly Unite the Right rally in Charlottesville this weekend demonstrated the Trump administration seems committed to ignoring them, both in words and deed.
