(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.
Lynch
Definition:
(v. t.) To inflict punishment upon, especially death, without the forms of law, as when a mob captures and hangs a suspected person. See Lynch law.
Example Sentences:
(1) Acts like this have no place in our country and in a civilized society,” Lynch said in Washington.
(2) Under Lynch, the eastern district is currently prosecuting at least five cases relating to the prostitution of US minors or sex trafficking – more active prosecutions than any other US attorney’s office in the country, according to knowledgeable observers.
(3) Asked by television reporters outside the church for comment on the officers’ decision to turn their backs, Lynch said: “The feeling is real, but today is about mourning, tomorrow is about debate.” Pressed on the point, Lynch said: “We have to understand the betrayal that they feel.
(4) According to the latest World Wealth Report from Merrill Lynch, there are now 10.1 million people worth more than $1m (£507,000), excluding the value of their homes.
(5) Economists at Bank of America Merrill Lynch wrote in a note to clients on Friday that it ranked “a serious escalation of US-China trade tensions” as the biggest risk to the global economy in 2017.
(6) But it wasn't O'Neal who requested the article's suppression; according to Google's UK head of communications, Peter Barron, it was "an ordinary member of the public who left a comment on Robert's blog" and he reassured us that "If you search for Merrill Lynch [the blog] will appear.
(7) - @lyallgrant #Syria September 27, 2013 But veteran UN watcher Colum Lynch explains what the draft really means on Foreign Policy's The Cable blog .
(8) On Thursday, the attorney general, Loretta Lynch, had described the massacre as a “barbaric crime”, and said it was being looked at as a hate crime.
(9) The David Lynch limited-edition box set is available on Blu-ray and DVD from 4 June, courtesy of Universal Pictures
(10) Bob Wigley, the Yell chairman and former Merrill Lynch senior executive, has emerged as a possible contender for the role of ITV chairman.
(11) Greece missed a payment to the International Monetary Fund last week and the clock will tick down to 20 July when Greece must repay €3.5bn to the ECB – the final deadline, according to Bank of America Merrill Lynch.
(12) We describe the decision logic that was involved in the diagnosis of Lynch syndrome II in this family and indicate the important role of the gynecologists in this process.
(13) The men are accused of running a near decade-long conspiracy during their time at the firm and are being charged with conspiracy to defraud the United States, violations of the Clean Air Act, and wire fraud, the US attorney general Loretta Lynch said on Wednesday.
(14) US attorney general Loretta Lynch closed the investigation into Hillary Clinton’s private email practices with no charges on Wednesday, formally ending a protracted saga that has clouded her campaign with questions of trustworthiness.
(15) A spokeswoman for Lynch said Autonomy had handed all receipts to its accountant, Deloitte, on a quarterly basis, even though it was not obliged to do so.
(16) On the same day, armed men entered the Hôpital Communautaire with the intention of lynching patients, while health staff were threatened.
(17) For this patient's treatment, all three consultants advise against the Lynch-type frontoethmoidectomy procedure, with or without mucoperiosteal flap reconstruction of the nasofrontal duct.
(18) An alteration in the postsynaptic response to endogenous neurotransmitter, as a result of an increase in the number of postsynaptic receptors, has been proposed (Baudry and Lynch, 1980).
(19) Intranuclear virus-like particles, as described by Zelickson and Lynch, were seen in 3 cases; 2 of these subsequently underwent malignant degeneration.
(20) Security analyst Jorge Kawas said extradition was almost inevitable for El Chapo, but he cautioned: “Some powerful people in the (Mexican) elite should be worried if El Chapo decides to spill the beans.” In a brief statement on Friday, US attorney general Loretta Lynch hailed the arrest as a “victory for the citizens of both Mexico and the United States.” She comended the Mexican authorities, but made no mention of the subject of extradition.