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  • Once that com - mitment was made, it continued and increased, as a matter of honor rather than preference.

    Here There Are Monsters 2010

  • "This agreement enables Redbox to fulfill our com mitment to providing consumers affordable and convenient home entertainment," said Redbox President Mitch Lowe

    Redbox, Studios Set DVD Rental Delays 2010

  • Regularly in both words and actions, communicate your com mitment to your spouse, as well as to your children.

    What Kids Wish Parents Knew about Parenting JOE WHITE 2003

  • Twenty-five years ago today, in a world marked by brutal divisions and ideological conflict, the United States joined 33 European nations and Canada in signing the Helsinki Final Act. That watershed event established the Conference on Security and Cooperation in Europe (CSCE) and affirmed an international com-mitment to respect "freedom of thought, conscience, religion or belief, for all without distinction as to race, sex, language, or religion."

    Proclamation On Helsinki Human Rights Day Clinton, Bill, 1946- 2000

  • Regret was expressed at the postponement of the presentation of the submission - which had been due to happen today - and a com - mitment was made that it would be presented as a matter of urgency.

    ANC Daily News Briefing 1996

  • All they need is immunity from prosecution for violating security clearances and a com - mitment to broadcast their testimony without editing, possibly on C-Span.

    EUFON Vol. 2 No. 1 1994

  • We have been asked to do something that grows increasingly difficult, something we all wish we had not been asked to do, but there is no point in questioning our com - mitment now.

    The Elf Queen of Shannara Brooks, Terry 1992

  • Once that com - mitment was made, it continued and increased, as a matter of honor rather than preference.

    Unicorn Point Anthony, Piers 1989

  • War is the grossest affront to cultural achievement and the psychical attitudes which this achievement has bred; the pacifist's com - mitment is thus grounded more profoundly than even an intellectual and emotional repudiation of war.

    ETHICS OF PEACE ELIZABETH FLOWER 1968

  • I hope my family's com- mitment can help pass that mindset on to future recipients.

    The Amazing Life Of The Guy Apple Tried To Poach: Blackstone CFO Laurence Tosi - Yahoo! Finance 2011

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