(n.) The act of committing, or putting in charge, keeping, or trust; consignment; esp., the act of committing to prison.
(n.) A warrant or order for the imprisonment of a person; -- more frequently termed a mittimus.
(n.) The act of referring or intrusting to a committee for consideration and report; as, the commitment of a petition or a bill.
(n.) A doing, or perpetration, in a bad sense, as of a crime or blunder; commission.
(n.) The act of pledging or engaging; the act of exposing, endangering, or compromising; also, the state of being pledged or engaged.
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.
Endeavor
Definition:
(v. t.) To exert physical or intellectual strength for the attainment of; to use efforts to effect; to strive to achieve or reach; to try; to attempt.
(v. i.) To exert one's self; to work for a certain end.
(n.) An exertion of physical or intellectual strength toward the attainment of an object; a systematic or continuous attempt; an effort; a trial.
Example Sentences:
(1) The practice of community nursing was heavily emphasized, and it was endeavored to strike a balance between hospital experience and work in communities themselves.
(2) In 240 cases of genital ulcer disease among mineworkers in Carletonville, South Africa, this study endeavored to correlate the clinical diagnosis with laboratory findings.
(3) The present study investigated and endeavored to quantify the psychological, sexual, and social adjustment reactions to a mastectomy, the possible interaction of these reactions, and the role of environmental support in mediating these responses.
(4) Understanding the nature and mechanisms of the CNS transduction of peripheral thermal stimuli to efferent command signals for driving thermoregulatory motor outputs will be a challenging endeavor in the future.
(5) This substantial goal probably will be achieved through the completion of smaller endeavors.
(6) The findings reveal that through feminist endeavors, and women physicians as nurse educators, the New England Hospital for Women and Children emerged as a leader in training nurses.
(7) Observational instruments have been used in forensic science, medical, and social situations in an endeavor to measure alcohol intoxication.
(8) Bold and imaginative plans by the medical library community are essential to the full success of the endeavor.
(9) While experience is being gained, each party must endeavor to understand what the technique is able to determine and what it cannot determine.
(10) The investigators endeavored to determine whether (a) depressed adolescents would perform as well as normals on the Bruininks-Oseretsky Test of Motor Proficiency and (b) whether the method of diagnosing major depressive episode (MDE), using DSM-III criteria or the Dexamethasone Suppression Test, was related to motor proficiency.
(11) Modern forecasting techniques and criteria to evaluate prognostic endeavors are described.
(12) Systems like this permit compilation of data, statistical analysis, and the possibility of intercommunication with other microcomputers and mainframe systems in collaborative research endeavors.
(13) Because of the increasing number of patients and the variety of prostheses and fixation modalities available to the surgeon, the evaluation of the patient with a painful arthroplasty has become an increasingly complex endeavor.
(14) The collecting of human remains for study in museums and medical schools has been a vital scientific endeavor for many years.
(15) It is predicted that future endeavors will use this relationship to diagnose and treat specific diseases that have at their basis neuroendocrine and immunologic imbalances.
(16) The library profession must earn a central place in this endeavor, and must address a number of important issues.
(17) In the words of Samuel D. Gross: "The cases which may reasonably require and those which may not require interference with the knife are not always so clearly and distinctly defined as not to give rise, in very many instances, to the most serious apprehension ... that, while the surgeon endeavors to avoid Scylla, he may not unwittingly run into Charybdis, mutilating a limb that might have been saved, and endangering life by the retention of one that should have been promptly amputated."
(18) In addition, closer links with nearby educational institutions or affiliated hospitals are being pursued to support and maintain our ongoing marketing endeavors.
(19) This is not the first time a federal agency has endeavored to track the number of police killings in the US.
(20) This endeavor will be fostered by the further development and refinement of non-invasive roentgenographic techniques.