For your company, this means that unless you are seriously committed to the best ideas – rather than turning your organization into an echo chamber for the CEO's pronouncements – your company will fall ever further behind competitors who commit to continuous improvement.
Then also, one will, to some considerable extent, shape one's economic behavior with this egalitarian aim in view, if one is seriously committed to the idea that justice demands equality.
For a long time, I regretted ever having chosen to do this work, but recently I realize that I feel more seriously committed to the story, to the novel, and to memoir than, twenty or so years ago, I would ever have imagined possible.
He is seriously committed to the art of "positive parenting".
It is far from clear that the administration is capable of that kind of focus and attention, even if it is seriously committed to the issue.
I have no doubt that the company is seriously committed to the environment; as Apple notes on its Web site, every one of its products meets or exceeds Energy Star standards.
The message of this brilliant treatise was essentially subversive to the official program of moral reforms then being promoted by Augustus, and it cannot have been well received by those who were seriously committed to the goals and aspirations of Augustanism.
"He goes along," Mr. Tsvangirai said, "pretends to be a gentleman, pretends to be accommodative, pretends to be seriously committed to the law, and turns around, sending people, beating up people, using violence to coerce and to literally defend power for the sake of defending power".
Lee was not seriously committed to the truth of any of them.
"You don't measure the extent to which people are seriously committed to the environment by what they say to a pollster.
By contrast, the empirical psychologist, seriously committed to the experimental method, does not, in the end, render consciousness intelligible; he or she simply describes how the mind works.
