Europe, the Pentagon says, is better able to look after its own business now, so American commitments in this part of the world are, "evolving".
He was apologetic about missing so many recent commitments but didn't elaborate on the cancellations.
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Start made dramatic reductions in nuclear forces of some 80% but the key point at this moment is that it contains binding agreements on verification and when the treaty runs out so do those commitments.
In particular, Aniston received rave reviews for her part in independent film The Good Girl, and it had been thought she wanted to cut her commitments so she could start a family with husband Brad Pitt.
So we already have commitments that are going to affect hundreds of thousands of children today.
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Some reports from the G7 meeting suggest that firm commitments made so far amount to less than half what is needed.
As the party lost one, two, three, four successive general elections from 1979 on, so it ditched unpopular commitments: unilateralism, anti-Europeanism, tax-and-spend.
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In this particular (financial) environment, any team is looking for medium-term commitments, so it would be nice to have our principal funding in place for the next few years.
So these are bold commitments.
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So why do banks make these commitments on such a massive scale?
Over the next two days, we need to build on this momentum and to make sure our commitments are aggressively implemented so we can continue to move.
For businesses, capturing these people is not only advantageous but imperative, Stroud argues, since the group that's coming in behind them is so saddled with debt and future commitments.
And, as everybody in Washington knows, so long as BP meets its commitments, government attempts to meddle in the firm's management, much less seize its assets, will be rejected by the courts.
Going forward we will have reduced capital commitments compared to the early levels so far.
The next step is for the nations signing up to the accord to do so, and to affix to it any commitments they are making, which is due to happen by February 1st.
And so three weeks ago, we announced new commitments from businesses and universities to make it possible for 500, 000 community college students -- half a million students -- to earn industry-accepted credentials for manufacturing jobs that companies across the country are looking to fill.
So those are the actions that follow on the commitments that were made, and that's what we will be monitoring.
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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So these are just some of the nearly 50 specific commitments that my administration is making today.
Just as firms publish policies outlining their commitments to a greener planet, fair employment and so on, they should now be expected to set out their policies for engaging in the political process.
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So we've actually followed through on a lot of the commitments that we'd made.
Adding up all his commitments on anti-missile defence, medical entitlements and so on, they amount to hundreds of billions of dollars over ten years.
But that is why it is so important for us to make sure that we are meeting our commitments to them not just individually as parents but also as a society.
Under the so-called "Salisbury Convention", peers do not vote against commitments set out in a winning party's manifesto.
So today, they have come back with 50 -- 50 specific commitments that aim to keep improving your quality of life.
In speaking to a senior executive in sales, not long ago, he said, if my sales people could visually see their pipeline, commitments, confirmed orders, and cancellations, they could be so much more productive.
Trade-distorting subsidies may rise so much, Europeans fear, that America will break its Uruguay-round commitments.
But the big auto companies, saddled with huge labor commitments and billions invested in plant and equipment, can go only so fast in shedding factories.
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