Sentence examples for shun commitment from inspiring English sources

She thought she was determined to shun commitment — "I'm not the type of girl who wants serious affection" — but after a memorable one-night stand, she has discovered that she wants more.

Private investors, in turn, tend to shun commitment to production lines that they see as survivors only in conditions of permanent protection.

The Drinkers were a merchant family who, being Quakers and pacifists, shunned commitments to both the Revolutionaries and the British.

He campaigned in 1936 on a pledge to "shun political commitments which might entangle us in foreign wars" and to seek to "isolate ourselves completely from war".

Roosevelt acknowledged overwhelming public sentiment when he said during his 1936 re-election campaign: "We shun political commitments that might entangle us in foreign wars".

The expected announcement in Brussels illustrates China's determination to take a leadership role in the world as Trump turns the US inwards and prepares to shun its commitments under an international agreement Barack Obama had described as a "turning point for our planet" and a "major leap for mankind".

"I think the prudent Reagan would have figured here, and the prudent Reagan would have shunned a commitment of the kind that we are now engaged in.

China says such a visit would breach the American commitment to shun official contacts with Taiwan; the Bush administration has not announced whether it will grant a visa.

Recently, over a 150k thousand people signed up to Veganuary, a commitment to shun all animal products from bacon to butter, for a month.

Germany and Finland said bilateral ministerial contacts had been frozen, and other European Union countries promised to follow suit, honoring a commitment made on Monday to shun ministerial-level contacts if Mr. Haider's party entered the government.

Even worse, Obama's explicit "pivot to Asia" endorsement emboldened hawks across the region to ramp up defense spending, shun serious diplomacy, and test the U.S.' expressed commitments.