Sentence examples for thereby committed from inspiring English sources

They do, however, illocutionarily entail it: anyone committed to 'I assert that p' assertorically is thereby committed to p assertorically.

However, joint commitments thus specified imply a normative relationship between the parties thereby committed: if A and B are jointly committed in some way, then each of them is obligated to act accordingly and each of them is entitled to demand the other's conforming action; in other words, they owe each other such action (cf. Gilbert 2009).

Looking at it one way, B.D. thereby committed a murder, so Strangler Bob's prediction for him came true.

Recusant, English Roman Catholic from the period about 1570 to 1791 who refused to attend services of the Church of England and thereby committed a statutory offense.

It thereby committed itself to sharing power and revenue with foes who are hardly angels themselves, and to a democratic transition that could yet prove a model for the continent.

It thereby committed three cardinal sins of PR: becoming the story; getting caught; and appearing to attempt a cover-up.The PR flacks who did Facebook's dirty work were two ex-journalists who had only recently gone over to the dark side.

President Bush — as he has finally admitted in his new memoir — explicitly authorized torture, thereby committing a serious crime under American and international law.

If a person says that it is not certain that Smith is still alive, he is not thereby committing himself to the statement that nobody knows that Smith is still alive.

Nearly a hundred million of us — forty per cent of the adult population, including pillars of the nation's political, financial, academic, and media élites — have smoked (and, therefore, possessed) marijuana at some point, thereby committing an offense that, with a bit of bad luck, could have resulted in humiliation, the loss of benefits such as college loans and scholarships, or worse.

Now he is facing charges that carry a maximum penalty of six years behind bars: he is accused of trying to wrest a microphone out of a tabloid reporter's hands, thereby committing an act of "obstruction of the work of a journalist," which is a crime in Russia, albeit one that is rarely, if ever, prosecuted.

Given these gaps there is the question of whether the budget should be tightened, thereby committing to full implementation of cost-effective measures, or whether to maintain the budget at the present level (with the possibility to outperform by full implementation of measures).