A year later, the company backed up the commitment expressed in these moves, by becoming one of the first in the world to publish a report on its ecological impact, the Henkel Environment Report.
Other Fed officials, including the chairman, Ben S. Bernanke, have been careful to leave the door open, offering variants on the commitment expressed in the minutes that the Fed will respond to economic developments as necessary.
It goes on to say that now is the time to live up to the commitment expressed by Israel's founders in their Declaration of Independence to "extend our hand to all neighboring states and their peoples in an offer of peace and good neighborliness".
INCREASED AND SUSTAINED INVESTMENT of resources - human, financial and material - are necessary to ensure that the commitment expressed here remains a reality and becomes a platform for action.
UNICEF fully supports the commitment expressed by President Thein Sein and the Government of Myanmar at a press conference in Yangon this morning, to carry out emergency preparedness and response without racial and religious discrimination, and to save every life as the utmost priority.
The campaigns in Montgomery, Selma, and Birmingham forced the nation to recognize that the social inequality experienced by Black Americans, which was engineered by elected officials, negated the democratic commitments expressed in America's founding documents.
Second, no proponent of the fixed view will deny that the abstract moral commitments expressed in a constitution tend to be widely, if not universally shared among members of the relevant political community.
Regrettably, the good intentions and global commitments expressed at meetings such as this have so far had no tangible impact on improving the living conditions of the millions of hungry and poor that still exist in the world.
In this context the IOC welcomes the clear commitment expressed by IAAF to do 'whatever it takes to protect the clean athletes and rebuild trust in our sport'.
