Sentence examples for which committed the from inspiring English sources

The Lend-Lease program committed Roosevelt to enter on Britain's side — so we had the Iraq Liberation Act, which committed the American people for the liberation against Saddam".

It adopted the Solemn League and Covenant, which committed the Westminster Assembly to develop a church polity close to Scotland's presbyterian form.

In 2006, under Governor Schwarzenegger, California passed AB 32, which committed the state to lowering its greenhouse gas emissions to 1990 levels by 2020.

His first – the self-styled "emergency budget" in June 2010, which committed the coalition to a long period of austerity – was one for the history books.

In public, China has hailed the "significant and positive" outcome of the Copenhagen accord, which committed the world to keeping global warming below 2C.

In September 1919, as he toured the country to win support for the Treaty of Versailles (which committed the United States to join the League of Nations), Woodrow became ill, and his advisers insisted that he return immediately to Washington.

They cannot round up the ethnic militias which commit the atrocities.

The Coalition Programme, which commits the government to making all these changes, is not the Liberal Democrat manifesto.

The problem, they argue, lies with the inflation target, which commits the Bank to fighting the dragons of the 1970s and 1980s, not those of today.

The process ends with the positive feedback of the G1 cyclins on the G1 CDK which commits the cell to S phase, in which DNA replication is initiated.

Ministers will hammer out the details of the Kyoto Protocol, which commits the world's industrialised countries to cuts in emissions of greenhouse gases.