History has shown, however, that financial commitments targeted at environmental causes are easily compromised, if not thwarted.
Japan will host a conference next week at which various countries are expected to announce their financial commitments.
European and U.S. debt problems combined with the inability to tackle financial commitments will weigh economic opportunity down.
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For example, information-gathering tools, such as reconnaissance satellites and the associated support systems, require substantial and sustained financial commitments.
But the Blairs have also made some major financial commitments in recent years.
The legal fight could decide whether financial commitments to retired public workers are sacrosanct, as many employees have long assumed.
Hundreds of millions of dollars of national and international financial commitments remain undistributed in Haiti, primarily due to political instability.
It said it was now taking action to protect its own "long-term financial commitments" and those of its employees and shareholders.
Those countries also have to increase their financial commitments to the fund.
Aid donors should be prepared to sign on for credible financial commitments, and to back calls for an MDG tax on financial markets.
Roberts said the proposal will require additional financial commitments from Kansas, which will be worked out by Republican Gov. Sam Brownback and legislators.
The allies have just promised consultations under the auspices of the European Commission to flesh out Western economic and financial commitments to Poland and Hungary.
Insurers remained solvent, met their financial commitments, and some even grew their businesses during one of the most challenging economic downturns since the Great Depression.
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He insisted that he was enjoying himself at the bank, and said he was optimistic that he would get the financial commitments necessary to secure its future.
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The shift in emphasis seems to be because there is simply not much money around, especially as some donors want to see more progress with the peace process before making major financial commitments.
"We had hoped to find a way of enabling the pension scheme to continue and be restored to a sound financial position on the basis of solid financial commitments from Federal-Mogul, " he said.
The member states did finally agree on the 2013 budget in December, but the multi-year budget - officially the Multi-Annual Financial Framework (MFF) - is more complex, involving long-term priorities and financial commitments.
Notably, New York's Democratic governor, Andrew Cuomo, has been waging a vigorous campaign to reduce the state's financial commitments to union pension and health plans, and Gov. Jerry Brown has been forced in the same direction in California.
The system was also implicated in a payment crisis which hit the Calcutta stock exchange in March, when a sharp fall in stock prices left a group of brokers with big carry forward positions unable to honour their financial commitments.
Not only will Brazil need financial commitments from serious partners to develop its pre-salt oil reserves, but it will also have to significantly upgrade its national infrastructure if it seeks to enter the global market on competitive footing with advanced industrial economies.
Here's the vicious financial logic: if the only way to take the eurozone's debt crisis down a notch or two is for the resources of the bailout fund to be increased, that would mean Germany and France making greater financial commitments to the fund.
With passion backed by strong financial commitments from each founder that are designed to sustain the association during its formative years, AfBAA members and staff have the resources, experience and energy to create a forum for implementing ideas that will amplify the inherent benefits of business aircraft.
The government would have to report to Parliament at the end of each financial year on any commitments made under the bill.
Pulling back on resource commitments when financial challenges appear.
The G-8 and G-20 have made specific commitments to increase financial and technical support to developing countries by 2010 to achieve the Millennium Development Goals.
The diocese has huge existing commitments and is in financial trouble, but it also wants to expand its influence in the suburbs.
He should also reveal the extent to which various commitments for economic, financial and energy-related assistance, notably through the device of government-guarantees for U.S. exports, will expose the American taxpayer to new contingent liabilities.
We need to hold governments and international agencies accountable for the commitments they have made -- financial, political and legal.
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