A South African businessman offered the player a huge sum of money to take on commitments that would rule him out of the tour.
Hedegaard's manoeuvring also forced China to acknowledge that it will take on commitments on an equal legal footing to developed countries.
The worry for developing countries is that the less that rich countries do, the more they themselves will have to take on commitments post-2020.
But they made it clear they were not eager to draw the government into the insurance business and take on commitments for untold billions.
One cannot take on commitments such as PhD students under these circumstances".
"I take on the commitment to ensure the prompt entering into effect of this agreement in Brazil," she told the UN.
I don't feel that if I take on the commitment to run, that I have the kind of confidence that I should have, that I'd be the candidate that I should be.
My guy spies tell me that pondering possible exit strategies begins before they take on any commitment.
In the end the government took the free over-75 TV licences proposal off the table, with the BBC instead agreeing to take on other funding commitments including the World Service and S4C.
The instant you do that, people take you serious, because you have taken on the commitment to care for people for a long, long time.
He seems almost born to midlife crises as Frank, a downtrodden professor of English who takes on the commitment of cultivating a Cockney hairdresser for the extra dollars the university provides those who extend themselves to the working classes.
