If health care professionals make a commitment to learning, a lifetime commitment, I think we'll go a long way.

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More than half of Cox's clients are knowledgeable, confident gardeners themselves, who understand that high-end garden design entails a lifetime commitment.

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"While Margaret, John and Mary would have been equally worthy recipients of the award, Khalil's lifetime commitment to helping some of the most vulnerable people in the world really stood out for the judges, " said Mr Anderson.

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"I have come to believe that if two people are prepared to make a lifetime commitment to love and care for each other in good times and in bad, the government shouldn't deny them the opportunity to get married, " he wrote in an op-ed in The Columbus Dispatch.

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At the time of his sentence Mandela made a dramatic statement that illustrated his overarching commitment to freedom: "During my lifetime I have dedicated myself to the struggle of the African people, " he said.

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But two months previously, a senior civil servant told education experts "the scale of the commitment does not allow it to be delivered in the lifetime of a parliament", the Labour leader went on.

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Two years ago, Facebook cofounder Mark Zuckerberg signed The Giving Pledge, a public commitment to give away 50% of his wealth or more during his lifetime or upon his death.

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