They were willing to risk their lives to enforce the law or to commit a crime.

VOA: special.2010.03.10

So your position may be not believed, and I want to claim that that's connected to the idea that you can't commit yourself to your policies.

也就是说选民未必相信你的立场,我要指出的是这与,你无法执行相应政治策略是相关的

耶鲁公开课 - 博弈论课程节选

So what Tony Blair, the guy who won the '97 election, did with "New Labor policy" was he managed to commit to a centrist policy by literally committing to it.

而托尼·布莱尔代表的工党,在97年大选中获胜,他在选举中提出了新工党政策,他成功让选民相信,工党是真正意义上的中间派

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"I believe that this nation should commit itself to achieving the goal, before this decade is out, of landing a man on the moon and returning him safely to the Earth.

VOA: special.2009.07.08

In countries like India, the reports tend to emphasize, to a greater degree, the situation that the person found himself in that might have driven him to commit a murder.

但在印度这样的国家，很大程度上，报道着重于，迫使凶手犯下谋杀案的,实际情况。

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选

"I think there'll be a message if the United States decides not to commit in a robust way to Afghanistan.

VOA: standard.2009.10.16

What would you do if you had this power, the power of this magic ring, where you could commit any crime, indulge any vice, commit any outrage and be sure you could always get away with it?

你们如果也拥有这般神力，透过来自神奇戒指的魔力，将可以违犯任何罪行，放纵自己，干下任何不道德的行为或暴行,也不用担心,因为永远可以藉由神力遁逃？

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选

Beijing's announcement comes one day after the United States became the last of several industrialized countries to commit to cutting carbon emissions.

VOA: standard.2009.11.26

So we have many candidates, So we have many candidates, more than just two; or we have not voting, which is related to that actually; and we have choosing your position, the inability to commit to a position.

有多位候选人,实际情况下候选人不只有两个,存在弃权票,这也是很正常的,还有就是候选人,未必能够坚守他的立场

耶鲁公开课 - 博弈论课程节选

Mr.Obama as been pushing China and India to commit to reducing emmissions before the summit in Copenhagen.

VOA: standard.2009.11.26

Or we've got to stay together for appearance's sake or we'd better stay together because financially it would be a disaster if we don't or all of the reasons other than intimacy and passion that people might commit to each other.

或者为了顾全家庭的脸面,最好还是生活在一起,如果任由关系破裂，经济上对双方是一个灾难,各种原因不解释，惟独不包括亲近和激情,两个人承诺在一起。

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选

"I hope the Obama administration will learn from that and not continue to commit the same mistake."

VOA: standard.2010.01.03

Despite international pressure, the military leader has refused to commit to a swift return to democracy.

VOA: standard.2009.11.04

"You have to totally commit." "At the same time, you've kind of got to let go to a power that's way greater than you.

VOA: standard.2010.08.04

But the European bloc did not commit to any sums and said the amount the European Union would provide will depend on financial commitments by other countries.

VOA: standard.2009.11.04

This is a broken society, it is a fragile society, so I think you have to live for the future, commit for the future, teach for the future."

VOA: standard.2010.04.19

India points to the aspirations of millions of poor people like Rakesh in sprawling urban slums and villages when it refuses to commit to any caps on its carbon emissions.

VOA: standard.2009.11.27

"I believe that this nation should commit itself to achieving the goal before this decade is out of landing a man on the moon and returning him safely to Earth,"

VOA: standard.2009.07.16

Dispatching more troops would further commit the U.S.

VOA: standard.2009.11.17

The New South Wales Supreme Court heard that the group planned to use bombs or firearms to commit "extreme violence" to punish Australia for its involvement in the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.

VOA: standard.2009.10.17

Clinton acknowledged that the lingering election dispute has been one of the factors delaying a decision by President Barack Obama in his administration's policy review over whether to commit more U.S.troops to Afghanistan.

VOA: standard.2009.10.19

"We watched them and we have interrogated them, we have looked at their computers and the electronic data and the maps that they had and the E-mails have been checked, the mobile details have been received and everything points out to that they were about to commit some serious crime."

VOA: standard.2009.12.11