In 1978 the pianist continued to perform for four more years to honor commitments, thenbegan a nine-year hiatus from the stage.
Many partners, including some with lucrative guarantees, had much of their compensation deferred because there wasn't enough money to honor commitments, according to current and former lawyers.
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Heavily indebted businesses honor commitments when customers are plentiful.
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But despite dismay over this internecine struggle, which to outsiders seemed fueled entirely by personal ambitions, most of the big donors, including the World Bank and Asian Development Bank, have continued to honor their commitments.
For example, when the White House concluded deals with health care providers, legislative leaders like Charlie Rangel and Henry Waxman, who weren't party to the talks, threw a fit, said the deals didn't apply to them, and sent a strong message that they weren't going to honor those commitments.
For these and other reasons (for example, sunk investment, concerns about legal liability for failure to honor contractual commitments, fears of mismanagement by Chinese partners currently running joint enterprises without benefit of the supervision of the involved Western companies, etc.), many businessmen in the United States and elsewhere are currently considering a speedy return to China.
We believe, moreover, that the Bush Administration's stances on such treaties reflect a clear-eyed assessment of the real limits of diplomacy with nations that do not honor their commitments, that deliberately conceal their activities so as to defeat verification and that seek to use bilateral and multilateral agreements as instruments of asymmetric warfare against nations like the United States that abide by their treaty obligations.
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And my administration will honor the public commitments made by the current administration to address this crisis.
The vote in the Appropriations Committee today is an opportunity to demonstrate instead to our friends here in Prague, to America's allies around the world and to our actual and prospective foes that, despite the intense partisanship of this election season, Democrats and Republicans alike will honor our national commitments and stand together in defense of freedom.
The US must ensure its honor abroad by abiding by its commitments and maintaining its standing with its allies.
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"They have chosen the path they are on and I am very pleased that we have a unified international community, including China and Russia, in setting forth a very specific condemnation of North Korea and working with us for a firm resolution going forward, " Clinton said, also underscoring the commitments the United States "has and intends to honor" toward South Korea and Japan.
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Five people close to Bitar are backing his bail commitments and will be on the hook if he does not honor the deal.
It is just wrong to denigrate the commitments of candidates who made solemn promises to persuade the citizens to grant them the honor of serving in the United States Congress.
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