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For starters, the EU should commit to absorbing at least 500,000 asylum-seekers a year, while working to convince the rest of the world to accept an equal number.
The EU should commit at least half of this, with the balance coming from the rest of the international community.
In the United Kingdom, the pro-Putin UK Independence Party is nipping at Prime Minister David Cameron’s heels, so the government refuses to commit to taking Britain’s fair share of refugees.
Instead of shortsightedly focusing on Russia’s seeming current ability to pay, the West should commit itself to fostering a supportive environment for Putin’s reform drive.
Indeed, many countries are parties to UN conventions that commit them to combating aspects of terrorist behavior, even though the UN has not agreed on a single formal definition.
This is why they should commit their cruelest deeds in the first year and soften up as the next election approaches.
EU governments are unlikely to commit themselves irrevocably to the enlargement process until they are confident that the single currency has got off to a reasonably good start.
The same applies when China does not behave like a good international citizen on the UN Security Council, or should it commit egregious human-rights violations at home.
Now, no government will commit to any date at all.
Afghanistan is grappling with the world’s biggest narcotics problem and donors must commit to a long-term drug control strategy.
Europe and Asia must jointly commit to an agenda underscoring global resources and sustainability.
The message that is almost certainly going through every major power is: be careful what you commit to writing.
They also tend to vote at higher rates, engage in more civic activities, commit fewer crimes, educate their children better, and get sick less frequently by adopting healthier lifestyles.
This is our purpose today; we must commit ourselves to it as passionately as democracy’s enemies pursue theirs.
If the Bank – which currently lends Nigeria almost $5.5 billion and expects to commit an additional $2 billion in each of the next four years – moved in this direction, other funders might follow.
The movement against AIDS has inspired all of us to help the people who continue to be left behind, and to commit to ending AIDS once and for all.
Indeed, African leaders’ affirmation that those who commit serious international crimes must be brought to account represents genuine progress.
That is why I, along with other African business leaders and policymakers, have called on Africa’s institutional investors to commit 5% of their funds to local infrastructure.
It is a judgment that will profoundly influence international law, deter those who might otherwise commit atrocities, and open the possibility of political reconciliation in Bosnia.
In justifying his refusal to sign the Kyoto Protocol, Bush has always referred to the fact that it did not commit China and India to mandatory emission limits.
Now, in response to suggestions by Bush and other G8 leaders that the larger developing nations must be part of the solution to climate change, Ma Kai, the head of China’s National Development and Reform Commission, has said that China will not commit to any quantified emissions reduction targets.
Few companies, however, have demonstrated that they are prepared to commit the time, effort, and resources to embrace a radically different way of operating.
A solution to the Western Saharan conflict can be reached only if all parties involved – especially Morocco and the Polisario Front, but also neighboring countries, particularly Algeria – commit to do so.
On September 18, when delegates from around the world gather for the United Nations General Assembly in New York, a large group of countries will commit to creating a new global framework to end this despicable trade.
It is Russia’s role as a veto-wielding permanent member of the United Nations Security Council that has made it impossible to establish a tribunal to hold accountable those on all sides who commit war crimes and crimes against humanity, or to refer the matter to the International Criminal Court.
Democrats must commit to expanding the share of Americans with health insurance, not reducing it, as Republicans have been working toward.
Second, Democrats should commit to investing in infrastructure, including the construction and repair of roads and bridges, funded by a higher gasoline tax.
Through this innovative public-private partnership, we analyzed global energy access and recommended in our resulting report that the international community commit to universal access to modern energy services by 2030.
Fascism can be defeated only if those outraged by it commit themselves to social justice with an intensity that equals their indignation.
From Libya to Mali, France and Britain are largely seen as the extended arm of an America that is increasingly reticent to commit its own troops – or even weapons.
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