If one is committed to a religious outlook, the first option is ruled out.
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When an initial analysis is highly plausible, readerscommitstrongly to it and reanalysis is made more difficult.
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If we are committed to realizing designs as physical artifacts, then ultimately we are committed to their intentionality.
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It seemed possible that restricting the study to children who never committed case errors led to an unrepresentative sample of children.
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To concede that statements are sometimes true, in this sense, therefore, does notcommitone to an ontological theory about the entities that they describe.
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Scientists of the late eighteenth century were committed to raising the level of these studies through experimentation and, above all, measurement.
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Or perhaps committing a few contrapuntal errors was but a small price to pay for enabling some fine singers to perform these roles.
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But his hopes of committing the distinguished actor to a prolonged stay at what, after all, was a small provincial theatre were doomed to failure.
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Furthermore, to qualify for international aid, governments of developing countries must oftencommitthemselves to liberalised economies, and remove government intervention in the market.
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And, thirdly, the money and materials committed to dreadnoughts reduced the resources available for armies.
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The coordination of all threads belonging to the same transaction is then crucial, because they must allcommitor abort in case the transaction fails.
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Patients were asked tocommitthemselves to at least 12 sessions because we believed that was the minimum required for a beneficial effect.
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These committed essays, of course, bear witness to important issues, even if they do not always illuminate them.
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The net result for those scholars not already committed to one or the other view seems to be stalemate.
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In the present study we focused on the number of errors committed at 4 and 12 s delays.
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