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This is not going to be a pep rally. It's sending a message to the miners and mine operators that they must commit to making the right safety decisions.

In money, and in life, you are very often your own worst enemy. You promise yourself you're going to diet, then eat not one or two French fries but a whole plate. You decide to really commit to saving for retirement, only to wind up with a new pair of shoes in your closet.

I never coast through a workout. This is been great for me physically, but it's also become a problem in two ways. One is that no matter how I'm feeling on a given day, I will absolutely kill myself in the gym, and it takes a huge amount of energy do that. I commit 110 percent. The other problem is that finding a workout partner is impossible.

I never expected or believed I could commit this horrible crime. I can only hope that I can be an example to others.

In both of those categories there's a standard. Either you are 18 years old when you commit a crime or you're not. Either your IQ is below 70 or it's not. Mental illness is a lot trickier for people to define, and so we haven't had the finality come from the courts that we have in these other categories.

Individuals who commit treasonous acts against the United States will be held fully accountable,

I'm a sports fanatic. It's hard for me to commit to the weekly, episodic nature of television, so for me, anytime that I can put a game on, that's what I do.

If people are depressed and alone, they're more likely to commit suicide than if they feel they can talk about it. Talking about it provides us an opportunity to help them.

If President Bush were to commit to annual summits with his counterparts, that would be a positive step and some vindication for President Fox and for the North American community he has been trying to build.

If the president is serious about ending our oil addiction, he needs to commit to accelerating the solutions available today, like stronger fuel-economy performance standards for all vehicles, hybrid vehicles and clean-burning fuels made from plants grown by American farmers.

I'm a damned fool. I wanted to commit suicide

If I were the homeowner in trouble, I'd make the person who wants to buy my home put everything in writing first. And I wouldn't commit to anything in writing until I had a cashier's check in my hand.

Immigration laws allow expulsions. I am the interior minister and I will apply the law...All those who wish to commit acts of violence will be brought to justice,

In thee are men that carry tales to shed blood: and in thee they eat upon the mountains: in the midst of thee they commit lewdness.

In the end, he refused to commit to upholding the core principles of Roe.

In simple terms criminals use vehicles. If you want to commit a crime, you're going to use a vehicle. There is nothing secretive about it and we don't want it to be secret, because we want people to feel safer, to see that they are protected.

If you commit enough of certain types of crimes, you are deemed to be a racketeer. The county officials have even bragged about this fraud.

If you commit errors, and you don't execute offensively, you'll get beat like this.

If you commit six turnovers you should have won the basketball game.

If you've got a hanging black man on your arm, you're more likely to commit a crime against a black person,

If VISX agrees with me to submit to a vote of shareholders the best offer of $32 per share or higher from any qualified bidder, then I will be willing to commit the significant funds needed to commence the necessary effort to conduct due diligence and to attempt to raise the financing for the transaction,

If the unions and their members are able to commit to extensive across-the-board labor reform, there may be an opportunity to retain some wide body airframe maintenance capacity in-house.

Smart on Crime says if you commit violent crimes, you should go to jail, and go to jail for extended periods of time. For people who are engaged in non-violent crimes - any crimes, for that matter - we are looking for sentences that are proportionate to the conduct that you engaged in.

I'm not normally one to commit to a long-running series.

I'm going to ask you a simple 'yes or no' question, ... I'm going to ask you if you will commit tonight to naming a pro-life running mate.

I just want to go out tomorrow, and play the same way I did today. Commit to everything like I did today and hopefully things will work out in my favor.

As western governments improve relations with Libya, they should press the government to improve its respect for human rights. Libya's cooperation in fighting terrorism should not mean carte blanche to commit abuse.

TALK, v.t. To commit an indiscretion without temptation, from an impulse without purpose.

That had been the book on us. We try real hard, then we have an inning or two where we commit a few errors and give up a few runs. The game kind of gets out of hand after that.

(Talking about Britain's school education) They take your soul away. They take your brains away. They don't let you have an opinion that's different from theirs. You've got to think what they tell you to think. So when you leave school, your only future is getting married. And by the time you're about 29 you got two kids, and you just wanna commit suicide.

It's real close. Right now I wouldn't commit to one or the other.

Nothing presented to the grand jury established that Mr. Jackson had the intent to commit the elements of the alleged conspiracy's three target crimes of false imprisonment, child abduction and extortion.

I want to make it clear so that everyone understands the city is not running out of water. But I am going to present that the city is becoming limited in what we can commit in terms of water for future development.

I want to commit as soon as possible, ... I want to get it over with. It's everything. It's the calls every day, the coaches wanting to be your friends. ... It's a tough decision. It's hard.

I want to commit early so I can concentrate on the high school season. Next year, I don't want to sit around taking phone calls all day.

I want to commit somewhere as soon as the summer ends.

I want to play Memorial, but I can't play that now because of my restrictions. I feel that my wings have been clipped a little bit. I want to be a global player. I want to play in Europe and Australia and different parts of the world. But I couldn't commit to 15 events.

This is just continuing the momentum. We are past the stage where SOA is hype. It's the right time for SOA. Now it's a matter whether or not it will stick and whether companies will commit to it. Success stories like this help.

about the exercise of Federal power to control an interstate conspiracy to commit illegal acts.

Donald Trump is a guy who can commit to things and wants to do a great job -- I mean, that's what makes Trump, Trump, ... People like that don't do things half-heartedly.

Dad's idea was to dress up the front of the buildings with sculptures and artwork. I think Dad's vision was if you build something and commit to improving the exterior aesthetically, it's going to draw more people into the area.

The next few days could be a productive cooling off period, when senators work out their differences and commit to getting something done on immigration reform, but we will see. We hope that they will come back to Washington committed to reform, because we need it this year.

It's unusual for someone to commit that many crimes in that short period of time.

It's up to you to decide if you want to commit to being part of the community. We want to be useful whether you choose to be a part of the community or not.

As you look back on Pamela's time on the board, things that stand out about her are she's very concerned about how everything we do impacts the kids. She also had a strong commit to the integrity of the political process and accountability of trustees to the constituency and students.

A Syriza government will respect Greece's obligation as a eurozone member to maintain a balanced budget and will commit to quantitative targets.

I want there to be more jobs, and I will not commit to a million jobs because we have already created 150 thousand new jobs this past year.

The core of human rights work is naming and shaming those who commit abuses, and pressuring governments to put the screws to abusing states. As a result, human rights conventions are unique among international law instruments in depending for their enforcement mostly on the activism of a global civil society movement.

The issue now is whether the Legislature is willing to commit large amounts of money to ensure that language access services are provided.

It's counter productive and I think it makes people even today think he's not telling the truth, and frankly it's time to just admit it, go from there, say he didn't mean to commit perjury ...

It's when bad taste encourages somebody to commit a crime or creates somewhat of an atmosphere where public safety is at risk, that courts are more willing to get involved.

They did not commit any violence but they still violated the law by establishing a government of their own.

The vast majority of Texas businesses faithfully follow the law but consumers should also be aware that disasters are a prime opportunity for unscrupulous businesses to inflate prices or commit fraud,

It will be in the interest of future Fed chairmen to commit to pursue policy regularities that work well,

It will be gone if we don't do something soon. We've got to act. We've got to commit resources, ... We've got to show leadership. We've got to continue the pressure and put the effort in place, or it's all gone.

I had clearly become one. When I talked to a woman, the room went silent. The guys leaned in close to hear what I was saying, pulling out notebooks to write my words down and commit them to memory.

Iraq should commit itself to implement the U.N. resolutions, and the Iraqi leadership should put the interests of its people into consideration,

I just don't understand. You stop all the shots and then at the end you commit a beginner's mistake. This type of error happens just once in a lifetime.

I just didn't feel comfortable on that box. I didn't commit to it in the playoff and ended up hitting a bad shot.

I have the off week to commit to it. I can do rehab two or three times a day.

I honestly don't think I'd want anybody else as manager. Heck, he was basically a coach when he was a player here. The fans love him. The other teams' coaches and players respect him. He was our focus once it was clear and understandable why Jim couldn't commit to coming back.

In the old days in France, they had beheadings of people who commit heinous crimes, ... Nevada Newsmakers.

If you were going to commit suicide you wouldn't do it like this, it was a complete accident,

Investors think that the Fed is almost done. That has been a powerful catalyst to get people to commit to equities early in the year.

In view of my big knowledge of the Iranian people, the region and history, I tell them (Europeans) not to commit this terrible mistake.

If you want to succeed in the world you must make your own opportunities as you go on. The man who waits for some seventh wave to toss him on dry land will find that the seventh wave is a long time a-coming. You can commit no greater folly than to sit by the road side until someone comes along and invites you to ride with him to wealth or influence.

California has a powerful law that enhances the penalties of criminals who commit hate crimes. The 'panic' defense all but invalidates this law by reducing sentences due to the hate the defendant had for his or her victim.

Before you edit your closet and spend money on new clothes, you need to know what it is style-wise that makes you comfortable. We're all a combination, but every person has a core style that they lean toward or aspire to. We encourage people to commit to being consistent. Fashion should work for you; you shouldn't work for fashion.

But we are sure that the judgment of God is according to truth against them which commit such things.

Certainly, the human rights of people who are criminals, they have to be looked after, ... But more important in my view are the human rights of the people against whom the criminals commit their acts.

Hopefully, we'll have some guys step and hit who haven't been hitting as much and we don't commit any errors.

He's probably got the quickest feet you've ever seen. He makes (opponents) commit then he walks around (them). The biggest thing he does is he loves to pass.

How calmly may we commit ourselves to the hands of Him who bears up the world

How can a user turn around and sue for this? They're the ones who decided to commit copyright infringement.

You have to commit to the what, before the how shows up.

These unregulated entities are opaque to the U.S. government. Because there is no handle on them here or in any of the other major financial centers, it's just that much easier to commit fraud.

They will commit suicide on the walls of Baghdad and other Iraqi cities,

They have solid pitching throwing in the 70s and they are a good defensive team that doesn't commit many errors. They can hit the ball well and make good decisions on the bases. They are a sound baseball team.

They want him to all but commit to vote in certain ways, and when he won't answer those questions, they'll claim he's not being forthcoming and that they have no choice but to vote against him.

The yield was not attractive to us to commit to it.

They'll probably guarantee the sheriff re-election for years. The federal government has and continues to commit so many missteps in the name of bureaucracy, like the trailers sitting in the mud in Arkansas. Things that just become totally unreasonable to citizens ... turn them against government. You had a local official who understood the plight his citizens were in and acted in contrast to rule-bound bureaucrats up in Washington.

They want to steal your identity so that they can commit fraud or rob your bank account, or charge purchases on your credit card information.

It looked like a very solid case. You had a woman who tried to commit suicide with her kids. There was really no issue with the circumstances there.

It wasn't any fun to watch today at some points. Of course emotions ran high, but we don't need to commit those kind of petty fouls.

In adults who commit serious and heinous crimes, we see some psychopaths who are evil people with evil intent and actually enjoy a degree of pleasure from committing serious crimes, ... We don't see this in children. Children very rarely are evil or bad.

I can't decide whether to commit suicide or go bowling.

I'd commit suicide, if I could do it without killing myself.

A player has to commit to it. A player has to want to do it. You can't just rely on your athletic ability. You have to grow, you have to learn. You have to have a zeal to succeed.

The mother eagle teachers her little ones to fly by making their nest so uncomfortable that they are forced to leave it and commit themselves to the unknown world of air outside. An just so does our God to us.

Sorry Day is a day to pause. A day to grieve together for the harm done, and to commit ourselves afresh to make things different.

The boxes have been a little slow to commit out there.

The (Immigration and Naturalization Service) has never looked at the health and psychological care issues of this child. It is high time that they did so before they commit themselves to some precipitous action which could have (irreversible) consequences.

The current perpetrators of serious human rights crimes should be put on notice that international courts take the crimes they commit very, very seriously.

The freedom of speech doesn't give you the right to do whatever you want. It doesn't give you the freedom to commit a crime.

The idea should be well received, but it takes work to figure out how to pay for (a new system). People find ways to do things when they commit to them.

You can start a war but it won't be you who finishes it. The Americans know that their troops are vulnerable. I would advise them not to commit such a strategic error.

The follies which a man regrets most in his life, are those which he didn't commit when he had the opportunity.

The UK now boasts the highest level of broadband availability in the G8. We are now building on those efforts in becoming the first operator in the UK to commit to a national service which is capable of broadband speeds of up to 8Mbps. Our approach in getting the most out of ADSL technology means we get higher speeds to a national footprint as quickly as possible, making sure the opportunities are not just restricted to urban centers or those providers which operate their own networks.

The entire contact was consensual. Jimmy did not commit any crimes, and there was no sexual contact.

The employees we have really commit themselves to becoming experts about these products.