Example sentences of "'s commitment " in BNC.
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| 1 | The provisional IRA 's commitment to violence against the British and against the protestant — loyalist alliance , which the provisionals rhetorically and conveniently subsume under the term ‘ the British ’ , is frequently assumed to be based on either Marxist or nationalist principles and in both cases to be secularist or areligious . |
| 2 | It is a reflection on the ITF competitions , the television exposure , the prestige of these events , and also on the Marketing Department 's commitment to excellence in servicing the needs of our sponsors . |
| 3 | Joanne 's commitment to the next 12 months will leave her little time for the hobbies that she enjoyed before tennis came along . |
| 4 | A new station at Lake ( near Shanklin ) on the Isle of Wight showed NSE 's commitment to retaining the railway on the island . |
| 5 | His warning casts doubt on Labour 's commitment to increase spending on ‘ priority ’ programmes for the health service and pensions . |
| 6 | Mr Scargill said Labour 's commitment to strengthening environmental protection would ring hollow with the electorate without a target date for eliminating nuclear power . |
| 7 | Ron Todd , Transport and General Workers ' Union general secretary , was applauded as he reaffirmed his union 's commitment to unilateralism . |
| 8 | Affirmed the party 's commitment ‘ to reduce defence spending initially to equal the average level of other West European countries ’ and use savings for social spending . |
| 9 | Underlining last weekend 's commitment by John Smith , the shadow Chancellor , to control spending , Giles Radice , MP for Durham North , told the conference that properly financed public spending was not only good economics , but good politics . |
| 10 | Her comments on interest rates had little impact on financial markets but they appeared to underscore the Government 's commitment to holding up the pound . |
| 11 | The National Executive Committee was warned that watering down the party 's commitment to sexual equality in the policy review , out of a fear of losing votes , could backfire . |
| 12 | However , Gerry Collins , the Irish minister for foreign affairs , later made it clear that progress had been made and he reaffirmed his Government 's commitment to the Anglo-Irish agreement . |
| 13 | Mr Patten will also outline the forthcoming ‘ green Bill ’ , underlining the Government 's commitment to environmental protection in the wake of his decision to reject a proposal for a new town at Foxley Wood , Hampshire . |
| 14 | However , Lord Marshall 's letter says that because of the Government 's commitment to introduce competition into electricity supply as quickly as possible ‘ alternative arrangements for protecting the security of supply ’ would need to be made , involving a ‘ capacity deficiency scheme ’ . |
| 15 | The move takes the glitter off President Bush 's call at the United Nation 's last month for immediate steps to ‘ halt and reverse ’ the worldwide threat of chemical weapons , and indicates that Mr Bush 's commitment to a poison gas ban is not so ‘ extraordinarily strong ’ as he and his advisors have declared . |
| 16 | Mr Lawson 's reaffirmation of the Government 's commitment to a strong pound coupled with discreet intervention by the Bank of England also helped to underpin sterling . |
| 17 | She pledged never to privatise the National Health Service , reaffirmed the party 's commitment to protect pensions against inflation and her intention to take a lead on world environmental problems . |
| 18 | Mrs Thatcher was at pains to emphasise the Government 's commitment to the National Health Service . |
| 19 | In the context of the folk model of policing in Northern Ireland , the RUC 's commitment to , and implementation of , community policing becomes an important test of the reality lying behind the commonsense image . |
| 20 | It is the management 's commitment to the principle of neighbourhood policing which affords Easton 's unit the autonomy and time to devote themselves to work other than crime control . |
| 21 | Speaking on behalf of may walkers and climbers , the British Mountaineering Council ( BMC ) argue that the resignation shows a clear crisis of confidence in the government 's commitment to nature conservation . |
| 22 | Roy Hattersley 's testament , Choose Freedom ( 1987 ) , emphasized Labour 's commitment to equality as the guarantee of pluralism , tolerance , and personal freedom . |
| 23 | Conversely , for Hans Mayer , Genet 's commitment to inversion makes him deeply conservative : ‘ Genet 's books are the exact opposite of a literature of indignation and rebellion . |
| 24 | Opinion surveys showed that public ownership won few votes for Labour and that even many loyal supporters disapproved ofthe party 's commitment to further nationalization . |
| 25 | Given the government 's commitment to control public expenditure and reduce taxation , her main troubles in the first term were with the major spending departments and with ministers who favoured some further reflation to ease unemployment . |
| 26 | Kaunda 's commitment to a multi- or non-tribal society eventually alienated Kapwepwe whose support base lay much more firmly amongst the Bemba . |
| 27 | Under capitalism the market and the desire to accumulate wealth appear to be a sufficient basis for social interaction and for regulating communal life ; things and impersonal economic mechanisms have replaced people 's commitment to each other while ‘ the ancient conception in which man always appears ( in however narrowly national , religious or political a definition ) as the aim of production , seems very much more exalted that the modern world in which production is the aim of man and wealth the aim of production ’ [ p. 84 ] . |
| 28 | It did not contain £3 million but it was , Yarranton said , a token of the Sports Council 's commitment to make the games ‘ a success story for Britain ’ . |
| 29 | Having succeeded to Britain 's traditional role as the maritime power , the US this century has inherited Britain 's commitment to the balance of power in Europe . |
| 30 | The moves will be seen as further evidence of Mr De Klerk 's commitment to a political , rather than a military , solution to the country 's long-running crisis . |