Meanwhile, Mr Zelaya's aides insist that Congress is merely being asked to ratify a pre-existing commitment to reinstate him.

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Some of Mr da Silva's advisers, however, have started to talk about the benefits of his making some sort of pre-electoral commitment to the IMF.

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Pre-borrowing is a much firmer commitment and eliminates the probability that a stock lender will lend out the same shares to several different traders.

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Used to be (remember those days?) that the high quality of some self-published books (and even proposals pre-word-processing) was a great way to quickly determine the commitment of the author and often even was a harbinger of the quality of the prose itself.

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The minister said he was encouraged by the inclusion of the commitment to provide one year of pre-school education for every family in the programme for government.

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