But even Unilever was not keen to commit to it from the get go.
And what I like about Ouya and what encouraged me to commit to it was the fact that Ouya is different.
"We'll sit round a table and try and get an idea of whether he wants to commit to it or look elsewhere, " Abbott told BBC Radio Cumbria.
Maybe the Kindle was the Bowflex of bookishness: something expensive that, when you commit to it, forces you to do more of whatever it is you think you should be doing more of.
If you decide that a hands-off approach is best for you, ensure that your initial asset allocation investment strategy is appropriate for your risk tolerance and then commit to it, even in rocky times.
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The challenge at that time was to get people to believe it, to know about it, and to commit themselves to solving it.
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And together with Foxconn, the outlook of this company is even brighter as we commit to helping it achieve its fullest potential.
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"We did not solicit the material, not pay for it, nor commit ourselves to publish it, " the Economist said.
My job provides me with the capacity to meet these needs, therefore I choose to commit my time to working at it.
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Instead of today's approach of restricting access to content using copyright, crowdfunding facilitates an alternative, whereby the creator agrees to provide content if enough people commit themselves to paying for it.
You can turn this train around if you commit yourself to doing it.
On the consumption side, commit to do whatever it will take to avoid a Depression, from fiscal stimulus to quantitative easing.
Together, they will identify real peace-related problems in their communities and create a practical implementable action plan and commit themselves to implementing it when they return home.
Rules that make it harder to move money around will make it harder to commit to distant opportunities.
In contrast to that stolen by hacktivists, about 35% of data pilfered from large companies was taken by organised criminal groups which wanted to sell it or use it to commit another crime.
The FSA said it accepted that they had not meant to commit market abuse, but said the it wanted the fines to "send a clear message" that insider trading was unacceptable.
We need to take the problem seriously and commit the time and resources to it.
In 2004, he said the Pentagon had to commit more troops and money if it wanted to win in Iraq.
That even as it spends a fortune to gain resources in the emerging nations, it may need to commit similar energies to galvanizing a rehab of its most critical market's infrastructure.
There is no point in changing the structure if we cannot commit the resources to make it work.
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Right now, I am focused on landing my skis on the snow and making the first turn, which, in this case, is finding the right investors to back my vision and commit to helping me build it.
The Obama administration must chose: Will it commit to measures to ensure the future viability of America's deterrent, or risk defeat of its arms control agenda at the hands of forty-one Senators who understand that nothing less is acceptable?
Actively pursuing ways to make it real will force you to commit with new tenacity.
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Though ICCAT also promised to commit itself to catch levels based on scientific evidence, it proposed to postpone doing so until somewhere between 2011 and 2013, and then only at levels that would give a 60% probability of rebuilding the stock by 2023.
Who pays the least for gun insurance would be least likely to commit a crime with it.
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The ARU is currently debating whether it can commit to hosting the 2019 tournament because of the financial guarantees demanded by the IRB.
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