(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.
Recommitment
Definition:
(n.) Alt. of Recommittal
Example Sentences:
(1) The Reform Government Surveillance coalition also recommitted to reforms beyond the USA Freedom Act, describing it only as a step in the right direction.
(2) Tony Abbott spoke to the agriculture minister on Sunday to order him not to proceed with a scheduled appearance on Monday’s program, just hours after Joyce publicly recommitted to attending.
(3) As we commemorate this historic anniversary, we recommit ourselves to the long struggle to stamp out bigotry and racism in all their forms,” said the president.
(4) We will be looking for a recommitment to the international goal of avoiding 2C warming and an independent, transparent process and timeline for new post-2020 targets, which Australia is due to indicate to other countries next year,” said John Connor, chief executive of the Climate Institute.
(5) Miliband said a few things about this classic Daily Mail scare subject, recommitting to the mansion tax, the 50p top rate and effectively ruling out an increase in VAT.
(6) Tony Abbott revives anti-carbon tax campaign as Labor recommits to ETS Read more The government has insisted that an ETS – whether it has a fixed or floating price – is a tax.
(7) Labour would recommit to Robin Cook’s “ethical foreign policy” with a radical overhaul of Foreign Office priorities, including prioritising nuclear disarmament talks and suspending arms sales to Saudi Arabia, Emily Thornberry has said.
(8) The key changes include modifications to the way concessional loans are calculated and reported, a recommitment to target more assistance to least-developed countries (LDCs) and other vulnerable nations, and moves to create a broader definition of aid flows.
(9) At a media conference after question time, Shorten said the “hapless” government was panicking after the criticism of the past week, but still failed to clearly recommit to its pre-election pitch that no school would be worse off.
(10) We need to support them in re-engaging and recommitting to the values of compassion and care so fundamental to our NHS.
(11) An issue of concern to Britain's mental health community is the problem of a discharged psychiatric patient who suffers a relapse and requires treatment, but who may not be ill enough to justify recommitment.
(12) He tweeted: “Recommitment to 0.7% aid target very welcome.
(13) It’s a reckless plan that would be devastating for Scotland .” The IFS analysis comes the day after Sturgeon also recommitted her party to pursuing full tax, welfare and fiscal autonomy for Scotland within the UK, instead of a new vote on independence.
(14) This leaves only the EU countries, Australia and probably Norway and Switzerland that will recommit.
(15) Recommitments to the target of spending 0.7% of gross national income on aid.
(16) But even as the senators were trying to work out whether a formal vote would make a difference and whether the vote on the bill they opposed so vehemently could be recommitted, the opposition leader, Bill Shorten, was happily using the legislation as part of his question time attack against the prime minister.
(17) The occupational behavior paradigm, which represents a recommitment to the values and beliefs of the profession's founders, has emerged to arrest the derailment process and thereby reinstate the substantive goals of occupational therapy.
(18) Countries at the Addis Ababa conference recommitted to putting 0.7% of gross national income (GNI) towards foreign aid.
(19) In an online question and answer session with Guardian readers , the health secretary, Andrew Lansley, answered a post about "recommitting" the bill to the house.
(20) While President Salva Kiir and his former deputy turned rival, Riek Machar, recently recommitted to allowing aid to reach the starving, the World Food Programme has seen no tangible improvement on the ground, according to its regional spokeswoman, Challiss McDonough.