COMMITMENT in a Sentence

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It says an immediate commitment of three billion dollars annually is needed to provide basic healthcare across sub-Saharan Africa.

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 Meanings and Examples of COMMITMENT
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
commitment
 n.  a promise or firm decision to do something
 n.  act of binding yourself to a course of action
Classic Sentence: (174 in 12 pages)
1  If I have committed a sin in killing an Inquisitor and a Jesuit, I have made ample amends by saving the lives of these girls.
Candide By Voltaire
Context  Highlight   In XVI
2  Ah, sir," said the man with the ivory baton, "had you committed all the imaginable crimes you would be to me the most honest man in the world.
Candide By Voltaire
Context  Highlight   In XXII
3  There may be some fault even in this obedience; but the fault thus committed is venial; it is a fall, but a fall on the knees which may terminate in prayer.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER IV—WORKS CORRESPONDING TO WORDS
4  This soul is full of shadow; sin is therein committed.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER IV—WORKS CORRESPONDING TO WORDS
5  I have just committed a wrong, sir.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER X—THE BISHOP IN THE PRESENCE OF AN UNKNOWN LIGHT
6  Not a single sprouting ambition committed the folly of putting forth its foliage in his shadow.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XII—THE SOLITUDE OF MONSEIGNEUR WELCOME
7  And whether, the fault once committed and confessed, the chastisement had not been ferocious and disproportioned.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER VII—THE INTERIOR OF DESPAIR
8  She had committed a fault, but the foundation of her nature, as will be remembered, was modesty and virtue.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 4: CHAPTER I—ONE MOTHER MEETS ANOTHER MOTHER
9  On leaving the galleys, this Jean Valjean, as it appears, robbed a bishop; then he committed another theft, accompanied with violence, on a public highway on the person of a little Savoyard.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 6: CHAPTER II—HOW JEAN MAY BECOME CHAMP
10  , inured by his past life to culpable deeds, and but little reformed by his sojourn in the galleys, as was proved by the crime committed against Little Gervais, etc.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 7: CHAPTER IX—A PLACE WHERE CONVICTIONS ARE IN PROCESS OF FO...
11  It was France who committed this monstrous violence; by foul means, for, with the exception of wars of liberation, everything that armies do is by foul means.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER III—THE ANKLE-CHAIN MUST HAVE UNDERGONE A CERTAIN...
12  The solitude of this spot, where so many crimes have been committed, had something terrible about it.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 4: CHAPTER I—MASTER GORBEAU
13  The reparation is the prayer for all the sins, for all the faults, for all the dissensions, for all the violations, for all the iniquities, for all the crimes committed on earth.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 6: CHAPTER II—THE OBEDIENCE OF MARTIN VERGA
14  Each sister kneels in turn on the stones, and confesses aloud, in the presence of all, the faults and sins which she has committed during the week.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 6: CHAPTER II—THE OBEDIENCE OF MARTIN VERGA
15  The nuns had committed it, not only without difficulty, but even with the applause of their own consciences.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 8: CHAPTER V—IT IS NOT NECESSARY TO BE DRUNK IN ORDER TO BE ...
Example Sentence: (100 in 7 pages)
16  South Africa praised the outcome of the election as another indication of Africa's growing commitment to multi-party democracy.
17  What we should not allow this moment to undermine, is our commitment to South Africa, to the constitution and the reconstruction.
18  Her commitment to a great cause degenerated from a crusade into an obsession.
19  Unfortunately, Tony and Tina have disparate notions of marriage: Tony sees it as a carefree extended love affair, while Tina sees it as a solemn commitment to build a family and a home.
20  Feminists should be delighted by their enlightened commitment to sexual equality, their assumption that what's sauce for the gander is sauce for the goose, too.
21  It says an immediate commitment of three billion dollars annually is needed to provide basic healthcare across sub-Saharan Africa.
22  The fact that you wear a wristwatch is another sure sign that you are a creature of commitment.
23  Google's choices are another breathtaking commitment in Hudson Square, a roughly 8.5 million-square-foot office market that's blossomed since a 2013 rezoning.
24  Last night's text said the Greeks "reiterate their unequivocal commitment to honour their financial obligations to all their creditors fully and timely".
25  According to the witness's testimony, you were present when the crime was committed.
26  Empathy for the criminal's childhood misery does not imply exoneration of the crimes he committed as an adult.
27  He committed suicide not long ago.
28  He is a serious artist, and totally committed to his work.
29  The government has committed billions toward defraying the costs of the war.
30  Parker was committed for trial yesterday at Southwark Crown Court.