I had resisted committing, but I knew I was going to cave.
But Mr. Shanker still resisted committing his union's kitty to the city's rescue.
Russia has made sympathetic signals but has resisted committing itself to anything but token cuts.
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.
Today President Bush and his aides found themselves ensnared in at least one of the issues that bedeviled President Clinton as Saudi Arabia resisted committing itself to speeding up the establishment of normal relations with Israel.
For months, UC resisted committing to the regular wage hikes that eventually became the agreement's centerpiece.
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.
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.
