(n.) The act of committing, or the state of being committed; commitment.
Example Sentences:
(1) 53% of the males but only a very small percentage of the female committers were alcoholized.
(2) Perhaps the greatest advantage to the investigator arises from the fact that once the procedural routine has been established and the computer programs written, the entire procedure can be done by technical personnel and does not necessarily require a large time committment from the principal researcher.
(3) He added: We call on Russia to honour all its international committments to withdraw its force to bases and to refrain from any interference elsewhere in Ukraine.
(4) Abuse committers were more often males than females.
(5) The partnership builds on committments made by agriculture ministers from the G20 nations in 2011 to co-ordinate worldwide research efforts in wheat genetics, genomics, physiology, breeding and agronomy.
(6) Our previous studies showed that administration of a single dose of hydroxyurea strips the rat bone marrow of approximately 50% of replicating cells within 9--10 h. The results of the present study indicate that such a severe depletion of rat marrow cells results in early committment of spleen stem cells to various blood cell lines.
(7) The pattern of differentiation obtained from these BFU-E suggests that the capacity for granulopoiesis is usually lost before a committment to either megakaryopoiesis or erythropoiesis is made.
(8) Relationships with patients, patient compliance, personal committment, and belief in the efficacy of risk reduction were most frequently perceived to contribute to effectiveness.
(9) Mr Bikindi, 48, laughed during his committal hearing yesterday as details of his alleged crimes were read out, including accusations that he was a commander of the notorious "interahamwe" militia.
(10) The Act has special provisions on important matters relating to the care of persons, for instance on consent in respect of therapeutic treatment, on sterilisation, on committal and on the dissolution of households.
(11) There was a trend for it to be also associated with the mother having at least completed high school, being under 30 years of age, and with the couple's non-committal on (i.e., not outright rejection of) the possibility of adopting a hard to place child.
(12) Psychiatrists and committing judges failed to comply with the requirements of the committment law in one quarter of the cases.
(13) When the demographic characteristics of those who report suicide ideation in themselves or others were compared to those of suicide attempters and committers, some consistencies were found, suggesting that such questions may be useful in identifying those "at risk."
(14) 10.14am BST More reasons Answering questions from the press, the committe chairman, Thorbjørn Jagland, is explaining that Syria is by no means the only reason for the OPCW's win.
(15) The personality categories differed significantly in terms of age, sex, marital status and committal status.
(16) Jürgen Klopp just the man to pump up the Anfield volume for Liverpool | Raphael Honigstein Read more Klopp was non-committal about his future when asked about Liverpool’s interest at a meeting of German coaches in Leverkusen on Monday.
(17) The other five cases received treatment with intravenous steroid as well as chemotherapy, and three cases also received committent emergent radiotherapy.
(18) The committal time after periodate stimulation is identical to that after stimulation with concanavalin A.
(19) Conservative Eurosceptics on Sunday renewed calls for moves towards a referendum on Britain's membership of the European Union after David Cameron's declaration that he was willing to consider one was criticised as too distant and non-committal.
(20) This committment requires the development of somewhat different skills, knowledge and philosophy from those customarily propounded in dental teaching to date which has concentrated mostly on matters relevant to young and middle-aged persons.
Noncommittal
Definition:
(n.) A state of not being committed or pledged; forbearance or refusal to commit one's self. Also used adjectively.
Example Sentences:
(1) He's more noncommittal, as a Muslim, about Obama's promises to open dialogue between Islamic leaders and America.
(2) I’m usually Labour” is an ominously noncommittal doorstep refrain: Jeremy Corbyn’s name often follows.
(3) Mention of the Lib Dems was met with noncommittal shrugs, as if you might just about bring yourself to back them, knowing it was little more than a futile protest vote.
(4) The author discusses the signs and symptoms appearing in the course of so called noncommittant squints.
(5) The chief executive, Ron Gourlay, has been publicly appreciative but noncommittal on Di Matteo's prospects, with the manager claiming still to be relaxed and focused on his immediate task as his contract ticks down towards expiry.
(6) Results of these analyses show that guidelines are too often formulated in a noncommittal way and that there is a need for a more functional registration system to link information about the clinical working diagnoses, the bacteria isolated and the sensitivity to the antibiotics used.
(7) Bassa was noncommittal about the offer, adding that it was still considering a "formal response", but said the proposals would be considered by shop stewards and ultimately by members.
(8) Andy Thornton, chief executive of the Citizenship Foundation, said: "So far responses from the Department for Education to our enquiries have been noncommittal and focus mainly on the coalition's proposals for a 'national citizens service'."
(9) Noncommittant squints are divided into squints caused by paresis or by a total paralysis of the motor muscles.
(10) This picture has all the traits of a well-rounded photograph: there are the jack rabbits on the fence, which make it look as if there is movement; the car that’s really dead, including the tumbleweed to one side and the beat-up old licence plate; the sky is totally noncommittal; the horizon is mute.
(11) She is, at first, similarly noncommittal about what she thinks of conversations around the burqa in the UK.
(12) Nomura analyst Rick Sherland had downgraded the company to a neutral – or noncommittal – stock recommendation on its disappointing stock performance.
(13) Two years into a five-year deal and recently appointed captain of Lazio, Biglia was noncommittal upon being asked if his promotion meant he would be staying at the club.
(14) But as a declaration of a military objective, it is slippery and noncommittal.
(15) Their Labour councillors refused to discuss the matter until after June 2004's council elections; when the council broke its silence, it was either noncommittal or brazenly enthusiastic about the Vardy proposal.
(16) The behaviour of these neoplasms has prompted the suggestion that these tumours be designated carcinomas rather that noncommittally tumours or neoplasms (Batsakis and Regezzi, 1977).
(17) Lamar McKay, the president of BP's US subsidiary, was also noncommittal about the plan during testimony before Congress earlier yesterday.
(18) Shortly after my first child was born, I attended a job interview where I responded to a casual question about my domestic circumstances with a revealingly noncommittal answer: "I live with my girlfriend – at the moment."
(19) And [the protagonists] were portrayed as Jews, so that was portrayed as a good thing?” I grunted noncommittally, which he took as a signal to move on to his critique of Django Unchained.
(20) For it, the author prefers the descriptive and diagnostically noncommittal acronym "BSAP".