Eighteen months ago, Shalala made a verbal commitment to stay in the Big East.
In January of their senior year, as Toma reconsidered his verbal commitment to U.C.L.A., Notre Dame offered him a scholarship.
St. John's has a verbal commitment from one player for the 2012-13 season, guard Darrick Wood.
One recent victory was a verbal commitment from Mike Teal, who is entering his senior year at Don Bosco Prep in Wyckoff.
The next month Mr. Lagonia wrote a letter, which Mr. Puff showed to investors, saying he had received a "verbal commitment" for a $60 million bond.
Bryce, a running back, was a longtime verbal commitment to Miami who eventually signed with Tennessee before transferring to Kansas State.
BBC Breakfast presenter Susanna Reid has elicited a verbal commitment from Arctic Monkeys frontman Alex Turner to take part in Strictly Come Dancing 2014.
He hopes to replace the familiar system of arms control negotiations with a much simpler process of independent actions anchored by mutual trust and the verbal commitment of national leaders.
The recruiting battle for Ben Gordon, the Mount Vernon High School basketball star, ended last week when the 6-foot-2, 180-pound Gordon gave a verbal commitment to the University of Connecticut.
ERIC GORDON 6-4, Indiana Guard Perhaps the best pure scorer of anyone in the class — not to mention the most despised, at least in the state of Illinois (Gordon backed out of a verbal commitment to attend Urbana-Champaign).
But in a document obtained by investigators, Citigroup executives said that Mr. Fastow had "given his verbal commitment" to a senior Citigroup executive that Enron "will support the 3percentt equity piece of this transaction".
