The idea of the Giving Pledge and making a public commitment, we thought, would motivate others, not just the wealthy.
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On Wednesday, Mr Connolly called on the Northern Ireland Executive to make a public commitment to establish an inquiry into clerical sex abuse.
To address this concern, I ask that Apple provide iPhone 4 customers with a clearly written explanation of the cause of the reception problem and make a public commitment to remedy it free-of-charge.
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Two years ago, Facebook cofounder Mark Zuckerberg signed The Giving Pledge, a public commitment to give away 50% of his wealth or more during his lifetime or upon his death.
Opponents of repeal suffered a setback when a compromise move by a backbench Labour MSP to include a public commitment to marriage in the replacement legislation was heavily defeated by a Scottish Parliament committee hours after the ballot result was announced.
Unlike the US, which has a public commitment to keeping Israel more militarily powerful than any other country in the region and which has expended endless diplomatic resources to defend its conduct, Russia will back either the Israelis or the Arabs depending on where its interests lie on a particular issue.
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EU's 15 governments for a clear public commitment in principle to a realistic common entry date.
She is a former White House aide with a lifelong commitment to public service and a firm grasp of the nexus and boundaries between our three branches of government.
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Consequently, if the American people are to be given an alternative to their present, involuntary and absolute exposure to the gamut of weaponry of mass destruction, they must begin at once to demand of their government what every Israeli expects of his: a commitment to public survival and investment in a variety of defensive technologies and equipment needed to honor that commitment.
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My studies of the 500 largest American corporations show a highly statistically significant link between those that make a formal public ethical commitment to their stakeholders and multiple measures of corporate performance.
Such a strategy spells public commitment.
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If, in the wake of the lessons of the war with Iraq, the American people are to have an alternative to their present, involuntary and absolute exposure to weapons of mass destruction, they must demand from their government a commitment to public survival and an investment in the myriad defensive technologies and equipment needed to honor that commitment.
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The Fellows come from diverse backgrounds, varied professions, and have all shown a strong commitment to public service and leadership.
Selection as a White House Fellow is highly competitive and based on a record of professional achievement, evidence of leadership potential, and a proven commitment to public service.
The statement on Thursday July 9th included a commitment to double public investment in the research and development of climate-friendly technologies by 2015.
With resistance spreading, we need a renewed global commitment that combines public and private efforts to defeat TB.
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The participants were judged on their knowledge and commitment to a recognized public cause, as well as their ability to engage in debate.
Speaking after the summit, Edinburgh University principal Prof Sir Timothy O'Shea claimed a "serious commitment" of public funds was needed for higher quality universities in Scotland in the future.
In tandem with the gift, the company is also announcing a host of new policies to restore public faith in the GE brand, including a commitment to keep American jobs in America, and to create one U.S. job for each new job created abroad.
Or should there be a commitment to the whole of public education?
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Once again the government has shied away from sacking civil servants, despite a commitment to cut the bloated public-sector payroll by 150, 000 over the next three years.
"The cost to Iraqi politicians of asking the former occupier to stick around is likely to be offset by the tremendous gains in public confidence associated with a prolonged American commitment -- especially if they ask early in their own election cycle, " Feldman said.
The first step is a commitment to share data that the public and the profession needs.
Environmentalists dismissed ExxonMobil's commitment to the project as a public relations gimmick.
The chancellor of California Community Colleges, Thomas Nussbaum, described the measure as "the greatest public commitment to educational opportunity in a quarter century".
There was also a commitment to shift more and more public services online - "digital by default" - in what the chancellor called a huge culture shift for government.
What I do think has been, from the very beginning, is a commitment by the Government to improve our public services, so we've had fantastically large amounts of money going into the public services and determination that with that we should modernise and reform those public services.
He backed that up with a tough sounding commitment to cap pay increases in the public sector in those two years at 1%.
As a fellow entrepreneur with a public-service orientation, I have been a longtime admirer of Mayor Michael Bloomberg's entrepreneurial spirit and commitment to acting on his principles.
And in return for a commitment to medium-term reform of the public finances, especially those of the provinces, Argentina's fiscal policy can safely be looser in the short term.
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