But Mr Belgrave - who said he could not speak out while he was employed by City Hall - says he struggled to get commitment from the beginning, in particular for the work needed to understand why the problem was so acute among young black men.
Ask an influencer to lunch for advice and support and get their commitment to sing your praises to the people that matter.
Just remember to get a commitment to close before offering a discount.
Recently, Salon.com interviewed researcher Mark Regnerus of the University of Texas at Austin about his theory (basically) that women should withhold sex until later in the relationship in order to get a commitment.
Mr Rooney said the aim was to get a firm commitment over the supermarket and use that to kickstart the rest of the plans, although he recognised the difficult economic circumstances.
After four years of total commitment I get a voicemail from the manager saying the girls' section is no more.
However it is the commitment to get the oil flowing again which will attract the most attention, says the BBC's former Khartoum correspondent, James Copnall.
"These clubs don't know how lucky they are because they did absolutely nothing to get this kind of commitment from fans, " says Hindustan Times sports journalist Dhiman Sarkar.
With our commitment to get to stories first, before they've become common cocktail chatter and there's no edge left for our readers, we sometimes are too early or too eager.
Other policies chalked up as successes included the party's commitment to get extra funding for the most disadvantaged school kids in England, an initiative known as the pupil premium.
You can be successful at whatever you do and that depends on your commitment to get there, the majority of women that are successful at one thing are also successful at many things, and, that sometimes includes marriage.
President Obama, during his recent visit to Beijing, was not able to get China to make this commitment.
Mr Macdonald also said he had "tried in vain to get minsisters to confirm that commitment" and that "affordable housing had taken one of the biggest hits in the spending review".
Any questions related to your family status are technically illegal, but employers often ask them to get a read on your future commitment to the job and company.
Because players don't become eligible for free agency until after six years, teams can get great value without making any substantial commitment to them.
His greatest achievement in opposition was to get the party to ditch its historic commitment to nationalisation, and to water down its traditional links with the unions.
"We've got some good things that are going, but if the commitment in America is to get to these higher-speed rail programs, then there's going to have to be more help, " says Thelma Drake, Virginia's director of rail and public transportation.
The low carbon commitment already looks like it will get at least one of the zones.
It demonstrates his commitment to reaching to try to get something big that he thinks the American people overwhelmingly expect us to get.
For George Osborne, this underlines one of his themes of recent days - that the eurozone countries need to get their act together, demonstrating their "commitment to greater fiscal integration".
But Mr Osborne said Britain's situation would get much worse if the government abandoned its "commitment to deal with that debt problem".
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Then after you get that Day 1, each day you measure the commitment to the move.
Brown suggested another Texas commitment, Arizona QB Connor Brewer, could get the spotlight treatment.
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"If they seem aloof, I get very worried, because any job requires a full commitment, " she explains.
When I think about power I think about commitment, influence and the power to actually get something done.
Escalation of commitment explains part of the reason why we get hooked to sports, but there is another attribute, which helps mint lifelong loyalists.
While his hands-off executive style may have allowed things at Kaplan to get out of hand in the first place, his commitment to upholding the family legacy ultimately ensured a rigorous response.
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