11.   Moreover, the accord includes safeguards that commit each country to enforce its own domestic labor and environment standards.

12.   Republicans said the bill would commit the country to fiscal responsibility.

13.   The agreement, reached after protracted negotiations, commits countries to dismantling hundreds of barriers and admitting foreign banks, insurance companies and investment firms to their markets.

14.   The catch is that the aid flows only if the State Department certifies annually that the four countries are committed to human rights and protecting ethnic minorities.

15.   The country is committed to this effort.

16.   The laws mitigate anti-trade fervor by committing countries to rules of fair play.

17.   The program commits the country to limiting money supply growth and keeping inflation in check.

18.   The treaty not only commits nonnuclear countries to refrain from developing weapons.

19.   The United States is pushing for measures to stop the practice and introduced an addendum to the proposed treaty that would commit countries to fight smuggling.

20.   Through a decade of scientific and political debate over global warming, private environmental groups were a driving force for a treaty committing industrial countries to fight the problem.