(v. t.) To give in trust; to put into charge or keeping; to intrust; to consign; -- used with to, unto.
(v. t.) To put in charge of a jailor; to imprison.
(v. t.) To do; to perpetrate, as a crime, sin, or fault.
(v. t.) To join for a contest; to match; -- followed by with.
(v. t.) To pledge or bind; to compromise, expose, or endanger by some decisive act or preliminary step; -- often used reflexively; as, to commit one's self to a certain course.
(v. t.) To confound.
(v. i.) To sin; esp., to be incontinent.
Example Sentences:
(1) Lucy and Ed will combine coverage of hard and breaking news with a commitment to investigative journalism, which their track record so clearly demonstrates”.
(2) Before issuing the ruling, the judge Shaban El-Shamy read a lengthy series of remarks detailing what he described as a litany of ills committed by the Muslim Brotherhood, including “spreading chaos and seeking to bring down the Egyptian state”.
(3) The evidence suggests that by the age of 15 years many adolescents show a reliable level of competence in metacognitive understanding of decision-making, creative problem-solving, correctness of choice, and commitment to a course of action.
(4) David Cameron last night hit out at his fellow world leaders after the G8 dropped the promise to meet the historic aid commitments made at Gleneagles in 2005 from this year's summit communique.
(5) However, he has also insisted that North Korea live up to its own commitments, adhere to its international obligations and deal peacefully with its neighbours.
(6) The cyclical nature of pyromania has parallels in cycles of reform in standards of civil commitment (Livermore, Malmquist & Meehl, 1958; Dershowitz, 1974), in the use of physical therapies and medications (Tourney, 1967; Mora, 1974), in treatment of the chronically mentally ill (Deutsch, 1949; Morrissey & Goldman, 1984), and in institutional practices (Treffert, 1967; Morrissey, Goldman & Klerman (1980).
(7) Altering the time of PMA exposure demonstrated that PMA inhibited chondrocyte phenotypic expression, rather than cell commitment: early (0-48 h) exposure to PMA (during chondrocytic commitment in vitro) had little inhibitory effect on the staining index, whereas, exposure from 49-96 h (presumably post-commitment) and 0-96 h had moderate and strong inhibitory effects, respectively, on cartilage synthesis.
(8) In other words, the commitment to the euro is too deep to be forsaken.
(9) What’s needed is manifesto commitments from all the main political parties to improve the help single homeless people are legally entitled to.
(10) But the condition of edifices such as B30 and B38 - and all the other "legacy" structures built at Sellafield decades ago - suggest Britain might end up paying a heavy price for this new commitment to nuclear energy.
(11) The secretary of state should work constructively with frontline staff and managers rather than adversarially and commit to no administrative reorganisation.” Dr Jennifer Dixon, chief executive, Health Foundation “It will be crucial that the next government maintains a stable and certain environment in the NHS that enables clinical commissioning groups (CCGs) to continue to transform care and improve health outcomes for their local populations.
(12) Yet those who have remained committed have become ever more angry.
(13) He was really an English public schoolboy, but I welcome the idea of people who are in some ways not Scottish, yet are committed to Scotland.
(14) And any Labour commitment on spending is fatally undermined by their deficit amnesia.” Davey widened the attack on the Tories, following a public row this week between Clegg and Theresa May over the “snooper’s charter”, by accusing his cabinet colleague Eric Pickles of coming close to abusing his powers by blocking new onshore developments against the wishes of some local councils.
(15) As a strategy to reach hungry schoolchildren, and increase domestic food production, household incomes and food security in deprived communities, the GSFP has become a very popular programme with the Ghanaian public, and enjoys solid commitment from the government.
(16) Many, including Vietnam, Gabon and the Republic of Congo have detailed plans in place, backed by high-level political commitment.
(17) To settle the case, Apple and the four publishers offered a range of commitments to the commission that will include the termination of current agency agreements, and, for two years, giving ebook retailers the freedom to set their own prices for ebooks.
(18) Cable argued that the additional £30bn austerity proposed by the chancellor after 2015 went beyond the joint coalition commitment to eradicate the structural part of the UK's current budget deficit – the part of non-investment spending that will not disappear even when the economy has fully emerged from the recession of 2008-09.
(19) In response, detainees – the vast majority of them failed asylum seekers who have committed no crime – waved and shared messages of solidarity.
(20) It’s not just that Lester was one of the first signs that the Red Sox’s commitment to players from their own system was starting to pay off.
Conspire
Definition:
(v. i.) To make an agreement, esp. a secret agreement, to do some act, as to commit treason or a crime, or to do some unlawful deed; to plot together.
(v. i.) To concur to one end; to agree.
(v. t.) To plot; to plan; to combine for.
Example Sentences:
(1) Paul Vickers, the legal director of the Daily Mirror and Sunday Mirror, said the Independent Press Standards Organisation (Ipso) – announced on Monday – was being fast-tracked in an attempt to kill off accusations that big newspaper groups are conspiring to delay the introduction of a new regulator backed by royal charter.
(2) According to Kadyrov’s multiple outlandish, sometimes confused, statements the enemies aren’t just at the gates, but have entered the castle and are conspiring to take the country down.
(3) Following an eight-month trial, Brooks was in June cleared at the Old Bailey of conspiring to hack phones, illegal payments to a public official and perverting the course of justice.
(4) A confluence of my residual neurosis, the patient's neurosis, her transference state, her other characteristics (that she was female, for example), plus the fact that she was the last patient contacted, all conspired with the regression from the trauma of being hospitalized to produce the countertransference reaction.
(5) According to the US indictment, Ghinkul (and his co-conspirators, who remain un-named) tried to steal almost $1m from a school district in Pennsylvania, and successfully transferred over $3.5m from Penneco Oil in over the course of three separate attacks.
(6) They also accessed billing data for the conspirators and alleged conspirators’ phones, showing the date and time of incoming and outgoing calls, as well as geographical data about where the calls were made.
(7) But - as at Barclays and UBS - it's clear that some traders conspired to fix the rate by changing the rate that they submitted to the Libor panel.
(8) Abdulla Ahmed Ali, Assad Sarwar and Tanvir Hussain were found guilty of conspiring to murder crew and passengers on transatlantic flights.
(9) Built in the 1570s and known as a 'miniature Hampton Court', it was once owned by one of the Gunpowder Plot conspirators.
(10) Maybe we have conspired against ourselves at times, but it just didn't go for us."
(11) But now people are thinking about the public school elites, aristocracy, City of London investment bankers, corporate lobbyists, and the imperialist warmongers, apologists and conspirators in the media, not as instruments of good government and a healthy democracy, but as dangerous impediments to it.
(12) A brief court appearance was made in Sydney’s central local court on Thursday by Omarjan Azari, who has been charged with conspiring to commit an act of terrorism.
(13) Affairs were had and buildings were blown up; Olivia Pope drugged, kidnapped and changed the identity of one of her employees; the president’s chief of staff spent his time orchestrating murders, rigging elections and conspiring with hit men; the president got shot in the head, and still found time to murder a supreme court justice.
(14) Marcinkova and Kellen were among four named Epstein associates identified by US government prosecutors as “potential co-conspirators” who would avoid charges under the controversial plea deal Epstein struck in 2007, which saw him serve just over year in jail for his offences.
(15) Tazhayakov and Kadyrbayev have been charged with conspiring to obstruct justice.
(16) "If the property market and the stock market conspired against it then the UK could possibly see the same thing happen."
(17) He responds: "Look, find weaknesses in me, criticise me for my weaknesses - I'm not as great a presenter of information or communicator as I would like to be - but the one thing people should not say is that I'm surrounded by some group of conspirators."
(18) It could have been his team celebrating a Double had they won at Villa Park and avoided defeat in their penultimate league game of the season to Leeds United, a match in which events seemed to conspire against them as dramatically as they went in favour of Ferguson’s side.
(19) Rajaratnam, a 52-year-old financier ranked by Forbes as the 559th richest man in the world, was arrested alongside five alleged conspirators in a dramatic series of raids by the US department of justice, based on evidence compiled from phone calls intercepted by wire taps.
(20) In the trial, Coulson was convicted of conspiring to hack phones while he was editor of the News of the World.