What you want to know about the applicant is whether they have the capacity for commitment.
He said the US must now "do better to make clear our nation's will, capacity and commitment to work together to tackle our major fiscal and economic challenges".
Solutions to these underlying challenges include technology, to be sure, but they also require investments in the building blocks of education that must be properly in place to harbor success--such as policies that enable basic access to education, infrastructure, the capacity and commitment by countries and communities to make education a priority, and well-trained teachers able to make learning compelling and lasting.
And they have demonstrated the courage, capacity, and commitment to turn their ideas into practices that can improve outcomes for students.
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This is precisely why CI has adopted a new mission to demonstrate that biodiversity and healthy ecosystems are essential to human well-being, and why we are taking on the task of demonstrating this in a series of core countries, large and small, highly degraded and still largely intact, with both high and low levels of capacity and political commitment to creating Healthy Sustainable Economies.
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The African Development Bank has demonstrated its unwavering commitment and its capacity to deliver on Africa's sustainable development agenda.
They decided that the highest leverage strategy available to them was to build the capacity and professional skill and commitment of their in-place teaching force.
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We commended past and on-going cooperation between ASEAN and the United States in the provision of technical assistance and capacity-building, the commitment by ASEAN to achieve effective intellectual property regimes and enforcement consistent with international standards and international agreements to which ASEAN Member States are parties, and cooperation in the enforcement against global intellectual property crime.
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" But he said Afghans need to show that they are "willing to make the commitment to build their capacity to secure their own country.
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It will be implemented in close cooperation with the Global Ocean Forum led Voluntary Commitment on building global capacity for integrated ocean governance, in partnership with countries, UN Agencies, global financial institutions, and the private sector.
Obviously, the United States has the capacity, the will, and the commitment to tackle our major fiscal and economic challenges.
The Center also notes that a decision to place greater emphasis on sea-lift should translate into a commitment both to additional transport capacity and to the preservation of a larger naval fleet needed to secure the sea lines of communication over which such transports must move.
Passenger Focus said that while HS2 was many years away, it welcomed the government's commitment to solving more immediate rail capacity issues.
But I have faith in the American people -- in their capacity for hard work and innovation, in their commitment to one another, and their courage to face adversity.
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We collaborate with African and other organizations with a history and commitment to the region, and with the capacity to innovate.
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The center-left Social Democrats said Monday they would approve the government's new plan in parliament only if a stronger commitment is made to build up wind and solar capacity, and if the legislation leaves open the possibility of closing all nuclear plants sooner than 2022.
The uncharacteristically generous nod to worker needs was short lived as the company partially pulled back on the commitment in 2011, citing premium rate increases that Walmart deemed beyond their capacity to pay.
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The fiscal position's vulnerability to a softening of international oil prices, combined with Mr Correa's weaker commitment to debt servicing, could cast doubt on the country's payments capacity.
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It expands GE's existing LNG portfolio and is the first available in a 10, 000-gallons-a-day capacity that reduces demand-side adoption risk and requires a remarkably low CapEx and OpEx commitment.
We are also encouraged by recent announcements in Asia, most notably in China and Japan, that governments are strengthening their commitment to solar energy and raising the target for solar power contribution to the national grid capacity.
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And today, I saw and heard a very simple explanation: there is, after the violence of last Wednesday and Thursday, a commitment to organic Egyptian democracy in some top quarters (notably the White House), and a commitment to a rapid technocratic transition in others (notably the Pentagon), and no capacity or mechanism to efficiently share information, forge a consensus across departments, and coordinate a message.
Ensuring these institutions have the financial capacity to meet their obligations is essential to continued stability, and the administration will not waver from its commitment.
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