Word: committedly
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Kolarik was patient and waited for Walsh to commit to his left post before switching over to the backhand and slipping it past him to tie the game at 8:16 of the period...
...merely inspire a thousand--10,000--imitators. That lends a logic to the acts of Sept. 11. At first glance the deliberate provocation of the most powerful nation in the world made little sense. But if America's reaction to that atrocity inspires a generation of young Muslims to commit themselves to armed struggle against the West, bin Laden wins. Then all the money spent on space-age pilotless planes and U.S. special forces, with their night-vision goggles and heat-seeking sensors, has been wasted, and all those who were killed on Sept. 11 have died in vain...
...Runaways are apprehended only if they commit, or seem likely to commit, a crime. The police department's own data state that runaways aged 14 and under have swelled to 33% of the total, and girls have become the majority. Yet in Shibuya, uniformed officers manning a centrally located police box rarely glance at the obviously underage, mostly female children streaming past long after midnight. "I don't have any reason to come into contact with them," says an officer, who declines to give his name. Michiko says when she's in a strange city she often asks policemen...
...charitably, the war on terrorism has not played to the strengths of the European Union. The E.U. has no military capability to commit to the campaign in Afghanistan and until now it has managed only the most rudimentary coordination of police and justice systems...
Just don't expect newly energized insurance firms to foot the bill for future terror attacks. That burden is likely to fall on the taxpayer. U.S. lawmakers are drafting a bill that would commit the government to paying 90% of losses from another major terrorist attack. European insurers are lobbying for the creation of an E.U.-wide government-backed "pool," similar to existing ones in Britain and Spain, that would pay for terrorism claims...