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It could have the unintended consequence of making it harder to actually catch those who commit sexual offenses because they won't have ties to the community. They'll be like a shark biting someone close to the beach and disappearing into the ocean.

We now have the largest surplus in history, ... As we commit ourselves to finding ways to secure our retirement programs, we also commit ourselves to bringing fairness to the tax code.

To kidnap and kill anyone is inexcusable. But it is repugnant to commit such a crime against a woman who has spent most of her life working for the good of the people of Iraq,

Today's terrorists enjoy the benefits of our free society even as they commit themselves to our destruction,

Today's verdict makes clear that we can prevent acts of terrorism by winning convictions against those who would plot to commit violence against our citizenry in the name of an extremist cause.

You know, we were right in the middle of a primary battle, and the league was trying to set up a debate. I told them I could not commit to the day because our primary was one week earlier and if we won, we would have to spend the next couple of weeks gearing up and getting things taken care of in order to win the race.

We were just trying to take it to them and make them commit fouls.

Two weeks before, 15 guys will commit and I'm out. But if I can keep shooting 64 here, things will change quick.

Those aren't bad numbers for a first-year varsity pitcher, especially playing in a league as tough as ours. She should have a better record. We should have a better record. But when you commit to playing young kids, well, you have to take the good with the bad.

We don't have the scholarships, and kids can just walk in the office at any time and pack it in. It takes a special person to commit -- they have to have a love of the game and a high level of commitment to stick it out for four years.

We didn't commit many errors and for this I have congratulated the players.

I would never commit ahead of time that he wasn't going to play. I would hate to tell somebody they're not going to play or their minutes would be limited, then all of a sudden 6 minutes into the game put him out there. That wouldn't be fair. I think it's better that he stayed ready, but unfortunately he didn't get in.

I would hope that you join me in making sure that organizations like those that you are a member of commit to making sure no one, including senators, is attacked because of his or her faith,

The Americans know better than anyone that their troops in the region and in Iraq are vulnerable. I would advise them not to commit such a strategic error.

We have a longer window to get it right. We sketch out scenes and can see how they work before we commit to them. And we can go back and fiddle with them.

We have to make sure he (Milosevic) is withdrawing from a position where he is able to commit these atrocities, these acts of barbarism in Kosovo, and he should know very clearly that if he doesn't then serious action will follow.

We will all commit to do better from here on. We're happy to be going and look forward to competing.

I was being stigmatized, and I think it all caught up with me, the affiliation with some of the guys. But at the same time, I didn't commit no crime like they were saying. I had my troubles with the check thing. That got resolved, and it's behind me, and the fleeing and eluding thing, and it's behind me.

I was ready to commit suicide. Then the next thing I know, I'm dancing on the table.

The actions of the South Dakota legislature are a chilling reminder of the lengths to which anti-choice lawmakers will go to interfere in our most difficult and personal decisions. This bill contains an inadequate exception to protect a woman's life and no other exceptions -- not for rape, not for incest, not even to protect the woman's health. Clearly emboldened by President Bush's judicial appointments, South Dakota has passed dangerous and unconstitutional legislation that its supporters admit is a direct attack on Roe v. Wade. Rather than continuing these unconstitutional assaults that threaten to endanger women's lives and imprison doctors, these legislators should commit to enacting commonsense legislation to prevent unintended pregnancy.

The achievement of your goal is assured the moment you commit yourself to it.

Whether a person feels positive or not is kind of a comment on their personality and of no great interest. You can find positive signs or you can find negative signs. How you evaluate them depends on something that happened in your life recently or something like that. There's no objective way to do it. The important thing is you try to commit yourself to making the positive signs more real. Suppose you felt that there's 99 percent of a probability that human civilization is going to be destroyed in the next hundred years, but one percent chance it won't be, and that one percent offers some opportunities to do something. Well, you commit yourself to that one percent.

Merely affording somebody the opportunity to commit a crime in New York is not entrapment. When our investigators go online posing as 13-year-old boys or girls, and in some cases 12 years old, they are immediately hit on. They do not reach out to anybody. They just put their screen name up and they get hit.

Merely affording somebody with the opportunity to commit a crime in New York is not entrapment. When our investigators go on-line posing as 13 boys or girls, they are immediately hit on. They do not reach out to anybody. They just put their screen name up and they get hit.

You can crumble under the weight of it all or commit yourself to working that much harder.

You can have a great character in a really bad script, and the film will never be seen. It's just too much work to commit to a film and not have it released.

We intend to lead the way in the development of interactive services. Significantly, our next-generation TV service will be offered nationwide and not restricted to metropolitan areas, and customers will not be required to commit to a monthly subscription.

My changeup was better last outing. This outing it was half and half. My curveball was a lot better than it was the last outing. There are a lot of good things. The two walks and home run made it look worse. I am going to give up a run sometimes. If I commit myself to working to get ahead, we're going to be all right.

My comment regarding ACC officials was unfortunate and poor judgment on my part. You can't beat a good team when you commit five turnovers.

We were able address some of our glaring needs - at quarterback, the offensive line and in every aspect of our defense. We had some of our running back prospects commit to other schools, but we have others that we are looking at.

We're capable of a whole lot more. We have to make the adjustment to demand more of ourselves. There is still a lot of the season left to get there. We need to commit to our goals.

We were never really out of it during the entire game. But then we'd cut the lead down to two or three points, and we'd commit a turnover. We just made some mental mistakes at critical times.

We can't commit eight turnovers this year and expect to win. We have to take care of the ball.

We can't commit money unless we're convinced it is going to be spent in the right way,

Whoever wants to commit suicide will do so.

We must send a very clear message that if you enter our country illegally and then you commit one of these offenses, you will be dealt with harshly and you will pay a heavy price for your conduct.

We have been talking about full-day kindergarten, and every time it comes up, everybody says they're for it, but nobody wants to bite the bullet and do it and it never gets done. In my opinion, the only way full-day kindergarten will ever be implemented in the state of Indiana is if we commit the next legislature to do it.

We cautiously welcome OPEC's decisions to make its full spare capacity available to the market and to commit to a future dialogue,

That's the way we play. We just try to keep the pressure on and make them commit turnovers so we can get easy baskets.

The people of Nicaragua were suffering oppression. This made us develop an awareness which eventually led us to commit ourselves to the struggle against the domination of the capitalists of our country in collusion with the U.S. government, i.e. imperialism.

What we ask is that people who stay in the pool for an hour commit to raising $25. This year we have about eight people who are planning to stay in for the whole 24 hours. They'll end up earning about $1,000 each.

The only way to lead people is to show them a vision of where youre headed and a path to get there together. These days people dont commit to companies or colleges, they commit to other people. Thats the name of the game.

We hope to continue to have success within the program. For this to happen, we must each commit ourselves to hard work and to play as a team. If we do this, everything else will take care of itself.

We are going to have to handle their pressure. They are very athletic. We simply can't commit any turnovers.

We did not commit a single error in the game. When you can go five innings in high school baseball without committing an error, you improve your chances of winning.

We're gonna have to commit more people to the run than we normally like to do.

There is a limit to what we can do. If people can show us other things we might do that would be equally or more effective, we'd love to hear about that, but changes in attitudes do take time to accomplish in a society. We will commit to doing everything we can, within the resources we have.

Ladies Commit, There's A Wedding In It For You.

Do not adultery commit; Advantage rarely comes of it.

Arianna, your performance will actually improve if you can commit to not only working hard, but also unplugging, recharging and renewing yourself.

You don't make movies to be art movies. You make movies that move you emotionally because if you're going to commit five years of your life to a movie, you need something to keep you going.

There are three movies that I am exceptionally proud of in my life, ... and I rarely commit to a list of films that I like, that I've made -- but these are the three films that I was passionately connected to -- the first was 'ET,' the second 'Schindler's List,' and third is 'Saving Private Ryan.'

Those on either side of the conflict who commit violations must be held accountable -- not only the perpetrators but also those in command of forces which commit such acts may be subject to individual criminal responsibility before a court of law.

The only control really is the next election if they don't commit a felony in office. Everybody wants to be sheriff. Lots of men have sheriff fantasies. It could be a little macho. There's something to be said for being the chief law enforcement officer in the county.

We're not going to commit to a family unless we know we can follow through. This project is above and beyond what we normally do.

We are confident that those who commit such crimes can and will be brought to book,

We still have a goal, and that is to have the University commit to not invest in any of these companies in the future until the genocide stops.

When they commit to doing something, they commit. There's no holding back.

My mentality is that of a samurai. I would rather commit seppuku than fail.

We had an opportunity to sign Guerrero in January '04. I called him and literally in a minute I had a response from him. So it wasn't one of those things where you say, 'Hey, we're going to commit 70 million bucks here; let's go think about this.'

We do commit to setting up the first insurance company initiated by a bank. But it is very hard to say when the company can be open for business.

One of the truest things to commit to is your own nature.

We'll start with those of you that are interested. We can start talking about what we can do, things that we can do to change the environment, change the culture and do what we can to educate all of us together about each other and how we can get along. I'll commit to that from my office.

Professionally, I decided to commit a lot of my time to California because there wasn't a whole lot happening for me in New York.

We're trying to provide an option that we would lock in their tuition and fee rate for four years and this way they know exactly what they're paying for four years. It's a way to get students to commit to a four-year financial package.

With all due credit to them, when you commit 13 fouls, you're going to come out on the short end of the stick in most cases.

We asked the state that the funding be adequate and on time, and they've managed to do that. But we also need the funding to be predictable and sustainable, and we always worry until they establish a formula and commit themselves to supporting it that there are going to be surprises from year to year.

We commit an error, and then we hang our heads.

We commit some of the dumbest fouls I've ever seen. I don't think other teams foul as much as we do.

When people come together to commit a crime, they are all charged separately as if they each committed the crime. It doesn't matter how he actually died as long as they were working together to commit the crime.

When people realize that they are safe from criminals and that those who commit capital crimes will be kept out of society for very long periods of time, then I think the tide will turn against the death penalty.

When dishonest shoppers commit return fraud, it raises prices for all of us,

The reason we held them to one run is because we didn't commit any errors. It just seems like we either make error after error, or our pitching is off. Today, we put it together. These are the kinds of games we should win.

We said, 'Yes, we want to commit to this.' We all have problems, and we are experiencing the same problems.

We thought it was really important that we commit ourselves to getting them down there appropriately.

We keep better track of our library books than we do child predators. Those who break such a sacred trust and prey on our children - no matter who they are, where they are from or where they commit their crime - should have to make their whereabouts known or be subject to additional jail time and other penalties.

We kept going back and forth. Do we really want to commit to do this?

We're our own worst enemy, ... I don't like the way we're playing. We turn the ball over and commit penalties. We're making too many mistakes and need to play smart to win football games we're supposed to win. That's why we're here. To win.

Whoever commits a crime strengthens his enemy.

None of us alone can save the nation or the world. But each of us can make a positive difference if we commit ourselves to do so. (p. 109)

You have to commit extra people to stop the run and they know that. They are going to take their shots, ... You have to be lucky. You have to get pressure when you can. They make it hard because everything they do looks like a run. You can't sell out against the run so much that you're not sound against the pass. There is a fine line there. There are no magic answers.

What the owners are doing calls for a strike, ... I think it's fair to say owners are on track to commit same errors as in 1994. But I'm the last person to ask if there will be a strike because I don't have any management connections. I can't say how far management is going to go being stupid again.

Commit yourself to something you have a passion for.

If the Chinese commit cyberwarfare against us, they are going to see cyberwarfare like they have never seen before.

When we were putting the album together and finishing up the artwork, I didn't know what was going to happen in the future, and I told everyone that. I told them, 'Let's commit to this year, and see what happens,' ... And that was one of the reasons why I put that quote in there, because I thought it's a really nice way to say goodbye, if it is a goodbye.

When we were talking to him, he didn't want to commit to how long. So I said, 'Try a year and see how it works out.' Fortunately he's been there since.

What this charge is saying is that if you commit a felony and during the course of that felony, you provoke a deadly confrontation and some is killed, you can be held liable.

When we commit too many foolish fouls, it slows the game. That helps the other team get in a groove.

What he's doing is making it clear ... that this (disclosing the location of the items) is what he cannot commit to in the Hawaiian mediation process.

We feel that these should not be tit-for-tat negotiations, this is something everyone should understand. Brazil and others are prepared to make some movement of our own and do everything that is necessary to move forward. This is an important step in the fight against poverty and I believe it is something that we must commit fully to achieving.

We're being approached by four parties to do Hurricane Katrina relief. If we could get the government to commit to a reasonable number of buildings, like 5,000, which is a drop in the bucket as to what they need, then we would build a plant (in the storm-affected area) at our own expense, and we would hire and train people from Louisiana and Mississippi to operate it.

The perfect no-stress environment is the grave. When we change our perception we gain control. The stress becomes a challenge, not a threat. When we commit to action, to actually doing something rather than feeling trapped by events, the stress in our life becomes manageable.

We are going to send the message to the Moroccans that Europe stands ready to commit itself very quickly on the ground as well, but Europe also requires a strong and clear commitment on the part of Morocco,

When you treat a kid as an adult, they start to act as an adult in the way they commit crimes.

We are a group of people that got together and decided to commit ourselves to making sure that the Rivas family needs are meet.

We started the first and second half with a bunch of turnovers. In a playoff game, you can't afford to commit 20-some turnovers.

Yes, I am a candidate, ... I'm happy to have told you. I therefore commit myself, before the French people.

Ultimately, the player makes the decision. The one thing we were adamant about was we didn't want 20 minutes. If it took 100 minutes, we wanted him to commit to 100.

We know as a fact that No. 61 obtained a fake federal agent's ID to commit felonious crimes.

We knew who their shooter was and we didn't even let her hit a 3 until the very end. Our thought coming in was, 'Don't even let her get an open 3.' We commit ourselves to a lot of pressure, but let's not foul when we're doing it.