Of course, I couldn't give him enough over the phone for a formal commitment.

In civil society organizations these would be formal commitments to provide resources or services.

The fund has received $40 million in formal commitments, and is now raising an additional $35 million.

The Atlantic alliance is resisting any formal commitment to such consultations.

The second, signed last year, was a formal commitment to friendship and cooperation.

Harazin, for his part, wasn't making any formal commitments one way or the other.

So perhaps I should be encouraging the match, even if it's a little early for either of them to be making formal commitments.

Ladies and gentlemen, this is a formal commitment, not just words on paper.

In turn, the European Union made a formal commitment to fund the decommissioning.

This was the first formal commitment of US military power to the region.