The passion surrounding debates about water only reflects the inability of many to put into practice the commitments to which they have officially subscribed.
They may be surprised, then, to learn that the bulk of the commitments to reduced emissions in the Copenhagen accord come from developing countries.
The cash commitments to cover the cost of these huge contracts put both companies into a position where profitability was difficult to come by.
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But many new entrants say they are making the necessary commitments to the region.
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"Higher credit risk borrowers will be the most compelled to draw down on their revolver availability now, versus take the risk the commitments fail to be funded in the future, " says Chris Taggert, an analyst at CreditSights.
The first is the slowness of its response to the commitments in the Bogor Declaration of 1994 to establish free trade in the region by 2010 for developed economies and 2020 for developing economies.
In 2005 the trade body ruled that the law unfairly discriminated against foreign companies despite the US saying that it never intended its commitments to the WTO to mean that it would allow the practice.
But if they have the will to stop the fighting, the monitors can help them implement the commitments they make to each other and the international community.
There is, of course, still a good deal of work to be done to engage all the stakeholders from central government to the rural villages, to design robust biodiversity management systems, and to build the capacities and commitments to ensure that these systems are implemented.
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He has not demonstrated an interest in the Millennium Development Goals, the shared international commitments to the fight against extreme poverty.
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Few have lived up to the commitments they made to increase aid at the Gleneagles summit in 2005, and some are talking about cutting aid budgets.
The band have commitments to play several shows in the meantime, but according to Lovett, they will be focusing on material from "Sigh No More" in those gigs.
"I think we're going to know fairly early in this process whether the Iraqis are in fact prepared to fulfill the commitments that they've made to us, " Gates said that morning.
Fulfilling the commitments made to today's workers will therefore require higher taxes from tomorrow's.
According to Peter Sharp, chief executive at the United Kingdom's Centre for Workforce Intelligence, an organization providing research and advice on workforce planning, recruiters should encourage nurses who left the job market due to family commitments to return to the workforce.
We all want more economic growth, but we ignore the means to get there: the onerous choices and commitments made along the roundabout path to those ends.
For its part, Congress would be well-advised to ascertain just what commitments have already been made by Ambassador to the United Nations Madeleine Albright, or others -- commitments that expose the United States to obligations to participate in multilateral peacekeeping or other missions or to pay for them.
We've also expressed concerns about the Assad regime's multiple broken promises in terms of the commitments they made to Kofi Annan, the previous U.N. official who was responsible for trying to broker a solution there.
Security Council resolution aimed at compelling the regime to meet its commitments under the plan, and requiring all parties to comply with it.
As we celebrate Mother's Day, I challenge all men to think about the commitments they can make to build up our societies by lifting up women, our very own mothers, wives and daughters.
It said its latest offer to the Commission included commitments from BA owner IAG to take over the routes Ryanair and Aer Lingus operate from London Gatwick, and from Flybe to take over 43 Aer Lingus routes in the UK and Europe.
Although the Iraqi government has made commitments to enshrining the rights of religious minorities in the country's new constitution, the lack of security makes these difficult to enforce on the ground.
The higher 960bn figure relates to spending commitments - the maximum amount that can be allocated to programmes during the budget period.
Well, from the day I took office, one of the commitments that I made to the American people was that we would do a better job here in Washington in rooting out wasteful spending.
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Not only does it fly in the face of explicit US commitments to Israel undertaken by the Bush administration, it contradicts a longstanding agreement between successive Israeli and American governments not to embarrass each other.
In its United Nations Millennium Declaration, adopted in 2000, the international community made commitments to reduce by half, between 2000 and 2015, the proportion of people without access to safe drinking water and to end the irrational use of water resources.
In net terms, emissions are likely to be much the same as they would have been without a significant shift to gas, provided that goverments stand by all the commitments they have made to curb carbon emissions.
Because over the last three years, as President of the United States, I have kept my commitments to the state of Israel.
But the 37-year-old former Australian Test batsman will miss the start of next season because of his commitments to the Indian Premier League.
New leaders often fail for a few common reasons: due to unclear or outsized expectations, a failure to build partnerships with key stakeholders, a failure to learn the company, industry or the job itself fast enough, a failure to determine the process for gaining commitments from direct reports and a failure to recognize and manage the impact of change on people.
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