Example sentences of "its commitment to [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The new government under Amato demonstrated its commitment to economic reform by pushing through , before parliament 's summer break , an emergency budget that was presented as a Cabinet decree on July 10 . |
| 2 | PAV stressed its commitment to extensive devolution of powers from the federal to the republican governments , but argued for the federal government to retain strong powers for the economic good of the country and to maintain Czech-Slovak co-operation . |
| 3 | Although the government 's Planning Policy Guidance on retail planning states that large retail developments in the Green Belt or open countryside are inappropriate , critics remain sceptical about its commitment to effective restraint . |
| 4 | From the outset its commitment to Labour representation was characterised by an incipient logic of empiricism , evolutionism , compromise and defence . |
| 5 | The agreement was less favourable to Cuba than previous agreements , with the Soviet Union ending its commitment to preferential trade terms . |
| 6 | By emphasising its commitment to political reform , the Mexican government hoped to avert US criticisms which might delay the ratification of the North American Free Trade Agreement ( NAFTA — see pp. 39045-46 ) . " |
| 7 | Despite the centralist tendencies of most non-Catalan Republicans and Socialists , the Republican-Socialist alliance could not escape its commitment to Catalan autonomy . |
| 8 | For as long as the Authority retains its commitment to centralized INSET , therefore , the points we raised in our sixth report about the style of such courses remain relevant . |
| 9 | The Scottish Prison Service has greatly increased its commitment to vocational training and education in the last five years . |
| 10 | In a curious way , and despite its commitment to vigorous prosecution of the war , Common Wealth provided a refuge for pacifist-minded individuals who could not bring themselves to oppose the anti-fascist war . |
| 11 | The strongest reason for voting Labour was indeed its commitment to improving welfare , repairing the damage Thatcherism has done to the social fabric . |
| 12 | The pay review body with its commitment to performance-related pay is immensely important . |
| 13 | It therefore moved towards them , and its commitment to Scottish home rule and to some measure of home rule for Wales became firmer . |
| 14 | ICI Chlor-Chemicals has launched a Chlorine Information Service as part of its commitment to Responsible Care . |
| 15 | During 1990 Aruba began to reconsider its commitment to full independence from the Netherlands in 1996 [ for details and July 1990 visit of Netherlands Minister of Aruban and Antilles Affairs see pp. 37822-23 ] . |
| 16 | The state has made labour markets more flexible by abandoning both its commitment to full employment and corporatist arrangements involving consultation between unions , management and the state . |
| 17 | There is some agreement that , down to the late 1960s at least , the state did encourage overborrowing by firms and overlending by banks through its commitment to rapid growth . |
| 18 | Amid protests from the powerful nuclear lobby and from other political groups the government renewed its commitment to nuclear power by agreeing to order five new plants by the end of 1985 . |
| 19 | State sticks to N-promise KAZAKHSTAN , one of four nuclear-armed states to emerge from the break-up of the Soviet Union , had reaffirmed its commitment to nuclear disarmament , an official newspaper reported yesterday . |