Word: commit
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Some cities already use a single election day, which results in higher turnout for local elections almost without exception. It’s time for other cities, like the City of Los Angeles, to commit to increasing participation in local politics by holding all elections on a single Election...
America: the land where execution is not only legal, but a luxury. It doesn’t matter how it gets done, or which reasons are found most compelling, but we must join the rest of the civilized world in banning the death penalty. Not executing those who commit crimes as teenagers is a good step—but we must go further...
...COMMIT TO THE TASK. Oxfam and many other leaders in civil society have embraced the goal of Making Poverty History. The world as a whole needs now to embrace the goal...
...conviction that the system crushes men after their marriages fall apart; that a two-punch combination of vindictive ex-partners and courts that favor mothers in custodial disputes is destroying fathers' relationships with their children. DiD meetings begin with a minute's silence for the five men who commit suicide in Australia each day, on the assumption that many of them have acted out of despair over separation from loved ones...
...Polo Is My Life: Fear and Loathing in Horse Country.” In the opening section, he describes being trapped in a stall while his ‘Uncle Lawless’ beats a rabid horse with a two-by-four; the horse “commit[s] suicide” by biting the trigger on Lawless?...