Sentence examples for underlying commitments from inspiring English sources

His insistence on separation from the Party may be partly temperamental — though born in Brooklyn, Sanders has the demeanor of a prickly Yankee — but it also reflects his underlying commitments.

R. Jay Wallace, for example, who advocates a Strawsonian account of blame, explains the problem with hypocrisy by an appeal to the underlying commitments of the reactive attitudes.

Necessitarians continue to work feverishly on filling in their view, while Humeans and others pay relatively little attention to what they are up to; new work needs to explain the source of the underlying commitments that divide these camps and to figure what each group is doing right.

Here, Obama outlines a fundamental aspect of his vision for the source of American power: underlying commitments to fairness and justness supported by military strength.

The participating universities, which include Georgetown University, the University of Oxford, Nagoya University and the University of São Paulo., each made three underlying commitments as part of the campaign.

Happily, the jungle's hospitality is reciprocated by an underlying commitment to minimising the project's impact on the surrounding ecology.

Her election-year reversal on that pact has confused some of her supporters, but her underlying commitment to bolstering trade along with workers' rights is not in doubt.

Even in its worst times, however, it retained some respect for its underlying commitment that the Irish should control their own destinies.

Jackson Boxer has made a place that sends exactly the right signals about itself: it is quirky and personal, and casual and cool, but it's very well run, too, and the underlying commitment to good food isn't casual at all.

Indeed, Whiting says, my appreciation of these as excellences, and so the underlying commitment I have to their value, just is a disinterested commitment to her because these excellences constitute her identity as the person she is.

But he continued: "There's still this underlying commitment to the necessity of having nuclear weapons in our defense for our security.