Example sentences of "[adv] committed to [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 The package , which confirmed Italy 's position as the Western state most committed to Lebanese reconstruction , comprised US$240 million in export credits , US$94 million in concessionary loans , US$64 million in grants and US$63 million in mixed credits .
2 This , supposedly , is when students are most committed to independent study and this is when students ' weaknesses in study skills techniques are most readily exposed .
3 Kate Collingwood , writing as tutor-organiser for Essex with a Federation Executive highly committed to voluntary participation , felt that ‘ any of my organising work could be done by voluntary branch members if they had the time .
4 Does not the Secretary of State understand that it is precisely because the TGWU is so committed to effective training and the future expansion of British industry that it is not prepared to give credence to the Government 's sham arrangements ?
5 Like many students the world over , the young Reagan was not overly committed to academic work ; both at school and college his grades were mediocre and his principal preoccupations were sport and drama .
6 But with Washington still committed to military victory in Afghanistan , cutting weapons supplies is a sensitive proposition .
7 That shows that the Government are totally committed to encouraging academia and industry to work together in that excellent and successful programme .
8 Winning in the Nou Camp is the Portuguese champions ' only hope of reaching Wembley and their Swedish coach , Sven-Goran Eriksson , admits : ‘ We have to be exceptional in defence , totally committed to maximum discipline and concentration , and inspired in attack . ’
9 Social revolutionaries have been keenly aware of the force of nationalism , as well as ideologically committed to national autonomy , even when it is not actually wanted , as among the Lusatian Slavs , whose language is slowly retreating , in spite of the previous admirable efforts of the German Democratic Republic to foster it .
10 Far from being content with the prospect of a society based on primitive agriculture they were becoming ever more deeply committed to economic development and efficiency .
11 But he suspects Major will fudge the issue by signing the treaty and accepting the so-called ‘ Delors Compromise ’ , whereby Britain will be formally committed to monetary union but its implementation will be left to a later parliament .
12 The Government is also committed to new road safety measures , including raising penalties for drink driving and installing more cameras at dangerous road junctions to film those passing through red lights .
13 A society frankly committed to legal pragmatism would be different from a self-consciously conventionalist society .
14 The Liberal party has an important ally in its partner , the Social Democratic party : both are strongly committed to electoral reform .
15 Poland was becoming the most industrialized part of the Tsar 's empire , and the business classes , as represented in the National Democrats , were strongly committed to remaining part of this imperial market .
16 Not so long ago Mr Kinnock was strongly committed to unilateral disarmament .
17 We are an equal opportunities employer and are fully committed to Equal Opportunity policies .
18 Does my right hon. Friend , who is undoubtedly committed to improving health care , agree that the reforms make planning and the provision of supra-regional specialties very much more difficult ?
19 While Alexander III and his son Nicholas II ( 1894–1917 ) remained resolutely committed to unvarnished autocracy , Russia 's traditional social structure passed through a Process of profound transformation .
20 We are firmly committed to equal treatment for men and women in pensions .
21 While they advocated and worked for such extensions of democracy the European social democratic parties , whether or not they claimed to be Marxist and revolutionary , were also , for the most part , firmly committed to political democracy in the narrower sense ; and where the necessary conditions were present — the legal existence of socialist parties , elections conducted on the basis of ( at least ) universal male suffrage , and participation in parliament and government — they made plain that although they did not renounce extra-parliamentary forms of class action they envisaged the transition from capitalism to socialism as coming about through the will of a majority of citizens , clearly and publicly expressed in elections .
22 James , who journeyed down from Scotland in 1603 to take up his new positions as English monarch and supreme governor of the English church , was firmly committed to Calvinist theology and was to take a very active interest in the ecclesiastical affairs of his new kingdom .
23 He is also firmly committed to proactive management : ‘ This is n't the kind of business environment in which we can set targets and expect something to happen , and we 're not waiting for an economic turnaround to provide us with the kind of results we want to turn in .
24 On the Gulf crisis , the EC and its member states " remain firmly committed to full implementation of the UN Security Council resolutions …
25 The civil bureaucracy as a whole was never committed to liberal democracy .
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