Example sentences of "[adj] commitment to [art] [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Kohl was again criticized for his reluctance to give an unequivocal commitment to the inviolability of the Oder-Neisse border with Poland . |
| 2 | Kohl 's continuing reluctance to give an unequivocal commitment to the inviolability of the German-Polish border along the Oder-Neisse rivers aroused renewed controversy in early March and appeared to threaten the viability of the West German Christian Democrat-FDP coalition . |
| 3 | In Pakistan , political sensitivities take priority , for despite Prime Minister Bhutto 's public commitment to a crusade against the drug barons , everybody knows that the new democracy is not strong enough to take them on . |
| 4 | The stance adopted by the Act does not concede the full force of the argument that ‘ there may be a need for a clear legislative recognition that expression of unashamedly racist sentiments , as such , is an aspect of freedom of speech too costly in terms of long-term social disharmony to be tolerated in a pluralistic society where ultimately the possibility of democracy and civil liberty may depend on wholehearted public commitment to the fostering of social solidarity . ’ |
| 5 | On the most general level , theoretical commitment to the concept of in-service training was widely in evidence . |
| 6 | Furthermore , as will be seen , he had a personal commitment to the forging of an explicit relationship between English , education , culture , and the processes of liberal democracy . |
| 7 | ‘ Over the past hundred years there has never been a real commitment to the formation of a contemporary art collection and the cost of establishing one has not been given much thought ’ , says Corral . |
| 8 | Educational dogmatists who insist that middle-class values ( and hence , speech ) must not be foisted on working-class children ; a society which has never had any real commitment to the idea of education as a key to social mobility ; guilt-ridden liberal sentimentality about working-class cultural identity . |
| 9 | Staff and Heads of Departments have absolute commitment to the University of Bradford , so we 've certainly got something going for us . ’ |
| 10 | The General Assembly made the following commitment to the Treaty of Waitangi : ‘ We renew the covenant to be keepers of one another , to honour the Treaty , its obligations and promises , that justice and peace may cover our land that our life together may grow in new forms of partnership . ’ |
| 11 | In the ensuing general election both parties promised substantial social policy reforms , but the electorate swung strongly towards the Labour Party , rejecting the old war leader Churchill in favour of that party 's clearer commitment to a vision of the ‘ welfare state ’ . |
| 12 | Both Michael Levey and Neil MacGregor , the present director , have had a genuine vision of what the National Gallery stands for and an authentic commitment to the idea of a museum . |
| 13 | Michael Morpurgo , speaking as an ex-teacher as well as an author , supported Mr Rosen with a series of vehement statements which reflected a passionate commitment to the independence of teachers to choose books that were right for them and for their pupils . |
| 14 | He calls her ‘ an outstanding creative figure in twentieth-century art , and a dominating influence in Irish art in her time ’ ; he praises ‘ her radiant self-confidence ’ , ‘ her austere intellectual vigour ’ and makes no secret of his passionate commitment to the greatness of her artistic achievement . |
| 15 | Their analysis may not go any deeper than that , but it is expressed in a way which impresses Letterman , a sort of passionate commitment to the power of the idea which he has — subversively — been advocating in Hollywood for years . |
| 16 | The mix of the original architect 's unusual commitment to the concept of asymmetry , the previous inhabitants ' rabid fetish for amassing ridiculous quantities of Victorian bric-à-brac and '30s kitsch , and Amelia 's own declared desire to keep her environment in a state of constant flux had turned the place into a confused and confusing labyrinth . |
| 17 | Now , with the approximate end of the Dutch-Indonesian conflict , the foremost of US political and strategic concerns in Southeast Asia , and given the conceptual underpinnings of US policy and the operational commitment to the success of the Bao Dai experiment , Vietnam was the obvious place to begin . |
| 18 | The Idea-O-Graph is a plot of different levels of corporate commitment to an idea over a period of time . |
| 19 | These two arrangements , which directly and indirectly committed Britain to major international financial responsibilities in which the operation of sterling as a reserve currency was an essential element , stemmed from a deeper commitment to the belief in Britain 's world role [ Clarke , 1982 ; Scammell , 1980 ; Strange , 1971 ] . |
| 20 | In contrast to its substantial commitment to the archiving of quantitative survey data the national ESRC Data Archive , ensuring the permanent availability of the most significant material for future research , no policy has been developed by ESRC for the depositing of important qualitative data . |
| 21 | As the PAL:YPE recalls , this impression was based on a combination of physical environment , staff vision , and an existing commitment to an infrastructure including a permanent part-time library assistant : School A I was impressed with , because they too had already started to talk about resource-based learning and they already had as far as I remember … ( now my memory is fairly vague now because it is quite a long time ago ) … but as far as I remember they had a Headmaster , who was extremely interested , very keen indeed , and they had a committee already set up , I think to look into this . |
| 22 | The most far-reaching omission was the lack of any firm commitment to a policy for integration . |
| 23 | I am delighted that that has happened , because it shows the Government 's firm commitment to the cause of the arts throughout the country . |
| 24 | At various points in this book , we may be able to discern how changes in attitudes of curriculum planners to the purpose of the primary school manifest themselves in new ideas about languages of instruction , a new urgency in finding out about community needs , an increased commitment to the concept of basic education . |
| 25 | Security from the membership of a large group which has a major commitment to the growth of Name ; |
| 26 | It is clear that by 1945 there was widespread popular support for the extension of state welfare provision , for a measure of nationalisation of industry and ‘ planning ’ and for a governmental commitment to the maintenance of full employment . |
| 27 | The main opposition to this came from developer builders who were significant landowners on the urban fringe , but there was a recognized tension between Tyne and Wear 's intentions and the Northumberland Structure Plan 's continued commitment to the growth of Cramlington on the basis of out migration from Tyne and Wear . |
| 28 | No precise functional relationship was posited between the level of aggregate demand and the pressure on money-wages : it was simply feared that a stated and credible commitment to the objective of full employment might foster an atmosphere in the wage bargaining process in which money wages could run out of control . |
| 29 | The Governor of the Bank of England said that there are firm indications of an upturn coming and that the basis of sustainable growth remains a credible commitment to the goal of price stability . |
| 30 | Even where the data is collected by trained interviewers , non-response probably remains a greater problem than with small samples , since the requirement of having a team of interviewers ( rather than one or two ) may result in a lower commitment to the goal of obtaining a high response rate . |