Islam and Protestantism are thus both based on "a rhetorical commitment to a universal mission", when Catholicism is based on an international structure.

Despite the government's rhetorical commitment to land reform, the program was quickly postponed.

But I have absolute confidence that the president is totally behind what we are doing," he said, "and it is far more than a rhetorical commitment.

And while the Bush Administration has retained President Reagan's rhetorical commitment to such defenses, its true allegiance to them is in doubt.

The United States should ease such sanctions in order to match its rhetorical commitment to Iranian democracy with meaningful action.

But it's easy to make a rhetorical commitment to diversity.

We cannot go about correcting obvious wrongdoings by merely resorting to rhetorical commitment.

Above all, we here in Parliament should also activate and honour our rhetorical commitments.

They must not nor cannot be sacrificed on the altar of mere political expediency or rhetorical commitment.

This should not be allowed to become just a rhetorical commitment.