Sentence examples for to which he committed himself from inspiring English sources

And these were tortures to which he committed himself after the considerable trials of his three-year expedition with Scott.

He closely examines Augustine's evolving self-presentation in the year before and following his baptism and argues that the new identity to which he committed himself bore few of the hallmarks of the orthodoxy with which he is historically identified.

As a rising music promoter who booked concerts for the Spinners and Isaac Hayes, he already had some money, but nothing approaching the seven-figure sale price to which he committed himself in the heat of the bidding.

The Age of Extremes, Little Brown, 1994 The months in Berlin made me a lifelong communist, or at least a man whose life would lose its nature and its significance without the political project to which he committed himself as a schoolboy, even though that project has demonstrably failed, and, as I now know, was bound to fail.

Prest attributes Blackstone's unpopularity to specific personality traits, saying his "determination...in pursuit of causes to which he committed himself could irritate as well as intimidate those of a more relaxed disposition.

Just one example, Mr. Naidoo said, was an Op-Ed article by Mr. Putin in The New York Times in September, in which he committed himself to international law, criticizing America for threatening military intervention in Syria.

The latter intends to offer with each sold product a service contract according to which he commits to perform all maintenance actions over the product lifecycle.

It was a way of carrying on the struggle to which he had committed himself, alone in the forest, on his first night in olive-green uniform in the Sierra Maestra.

Writing with fresh, unsentimental immediacy and a gift for insinuating himself into his boys' most capricious thoughts, Mr. Parent is too honest to pretend that the life to which he has committed himself is one long picnic.

After the meeting with Mr. Mayo, the President reported that "all major [budget] deci sions have been made". Asked whether he would have to raise taxes in order to achieve the balanced budget to which he has committed himself, he ap peared to leave wide open the posssibility that he would.

Except for a late stretch in which he committed two turnovers, Jackson was outstanding.