Sentence examples for undertakings against from inspiring English sources

Dispersal across the steppe to maximize milk and meat production could be, and in historic times was, punctuated by occasional assemblages of large numbers of nomads for an annual roundup and slaughter of wild animals, for warlike undertakings against other communities, and for various ceremonial purposes as well.

The operations staff of the Wehrmacht expects undertakings against the guerrilla units in southern France to proceed with extreme severity and without any leniency.

"We were subsequently advised by Derek Llambias that our funding offer would be difficult for the board to accept if we did not provide irrevocable undertakings to vote against GM resolutions to remove certain existing board members.

Yet Comcast says that it would make the same undertakings not to discriminate against other content firms and distribution networks that News Corp did last year when it acquired DirecTV.

These included undertakings not to vote against certain directors, believed to include James Easdale.

Judge David N. Edelstein of United States District Court in Manhattan, who in 48 years on the bench presided over two of the Justice Department's most historic undertakings -- the antitrust action against I.B.M. and the ongoing effort to rid the Teamsters union of corruption -- died on Saturday.

For example, in Australia, the competition and consumer regulator put an end to the marketing of so-called "light" and "mild" cigarettes by accepting enforceable undertakings from tobacco manufacturers in exchange for discontinuing court actions against them for misleading and deceptive conduct under consumer protection legislation [ 132].

A continued failure to abide by undertakings may result in trading standards bringing a contempt of court case against Hallisey.

Standard Chartered's chief executive Peter Sands sought undertakings with his Liverpool opposite number about the club's likely action against offending players and also had sight of the club's code of conduct before signing the £20m a season deal, last year.

Enormous undertakings followed.

America has spent years listening to the Clintons defending themselves against charges of greed, and of sticking to the letter rather than the spirit of rules and undertakings.