He refused to commit himself to solving the argument about the central bank by the May meeting.
Mr Clarke challenged Mr Duncan Smith to commit himself to keeping Britain in Europe if he becomes leader.
Those who favour yet more government spending are upset over Mr Koizumi's refusal to commit himself to another budget.
Mr Vajpayee is reluctant to commit himself to another summit meeting until more of this ground-work has been laid.
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Born in Bamako, the singer song writer Bafing Kul has chosen to fully commit himself to militant music, breaking away from established traditions.
Chamakh claims he will commit himself to Bordeaux for the rest of the season if he has not found a new club by Monday.
Although Mr Geithner did not commit himself to any specific action, the use of the m-word suggests Team Obama will take a tougher line.
That is, Obama is unwilling to commit himself to not recognizing a Palestinian state that will be in a de facto state of war with Israel.
One of these leaders, House Majority Whip Tom DeLay , is expected to commit himself to such a course of action in a speech on Wednesday in Houston.
The Americans recognise that if they are to speed things up, they must first get Mr Netanyahu to commit himself to further (and genuine) military redeployments in the West Bank, as promised by his predecessors, allow the Palestinians to open their port and airport in Gaza, and suspend building operations that alter the face of East Jerusalem.
His sister, a faith healer, had by then convinced him to commit himself totally to God.
In an interview with the BBC, however, Colin Powell, the American secretary of state, refused to commit himself as to whether Mr Hussein could retain power in a disarmed Iraq.
But Mr Blair refuses to commit himself, and Jack Straw, the home secretary, is openly hostile.
Asked this week if he wanted the council to keep going, Mr Sharif refused to commit himself.
In March, a Tax Court Judge ruled that a UPS (nyse: UPS - news - people ) driver could be hit with back taxes after the three-year limit had expired because his tax preparer had claimed fraudulent charitable and other deductions on his return--even though the IRS never asserted the truck driver himself meant to commit fraud.
Anyone who hires him will have to take the whole package: a man who questions everything he does, why he's doing it and whether he wouldn't be happier doing something else and one who is honest enough not to commit long-term, because he knows himself well enough to know that when he stops enjoying himself and reaches his threshold, he'll walk away.
Reid himself won't commit to the measure until a full review, his office said.
He argues that hedge funds are similar to private equity funds in that the hedge fund manager (who holds himself out as providing absolute, uncorrelated returns) has control over when to take clients and to commit their capital.
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