The pledge on taxes came only after Standard & Poor's warned it would reduce the county's credit rating to junk status unless officials committed to raising taxes this year if other measures fail to close the budget gap.
At a regional meeting meant to celebrate the 40th anniversary of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations, the Philippine president, Gloria Macapagal Arroyo, suggested that her country might not ratify a new, European Union-like regional charter unless Myanmar committed to democratic reforms.
However, Blair confirms in his interview with the Guardian that he believed Brown would be a "disaster" as prime minister unless he committed himself to the New Labour path laid out by his predecessor.
In a series of rousing articles, he argued that Christians could not be true to the "recklessness" of faith unless they committed themselves to revolutionary socialism, and conversely that Marxist materialism was exhausted, and only Christianity could save it.
There is a danger that unless those committed to the peace process renew their efforts to push it forward, the small minority of dissidents determined to undermine it may start gathering support from those, in both communities, who are becoming frustrated with the lack of progress.
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They told her it wasn't possible unless he committed a crime first.
Unless you committed a series of murders or something, you are a better person now than you were then.
So, the good news for Mr. Ovitz is that unless he committed perjury today during his testimony today, he's in the clear.
People don't get committed unless they feel connected".
