“What some people fail to realize is that it is not just fraternities that commit sexual assault,” he suggests.
Seevakumaran uploaded six videos to YouTube on March 17, just hours before he would threaten his roommate and commit suicide.
Third, Republicans should commit to compassion in action rather than compassion in appearance.
Voters fill out their name, address, phone number and sign a pledge that they will “commit to vote.”
His out-of-office message appeared to suggest that Jutting had planned to commit suicide, but he apparently changed his mind.
I determined to commit suicide on the very day on which I left prison.
She told me once that it was better to talk about adultery than to commit it!
commit it then to the flames: for it can contain nothing but sophistry and illusion.
Let that feeling represent what I could tell you, and commit her to your friendliness with my thanks.'
A people can commit theft; a people can confess theft; a people can repent of theft.
late 14c., "to give in charge, entrust," from Latin committere "to unite, connect, combine; to bring together," from com- "together" (see com-) + mittere "to put, send" (see mission). Evolution into modern range of meanings is not entirely clear. Sense of "perpetrating" was ancient in Latin; in English from mid-15c. The intransitive use (in place of commit oneself) first recorded 1982, probably influenced by existentialism use (1948) of commitment to translate Sartre's engagement "emotional and moral engagement."
commit com·mit (kə-mĭt')
v. com·mit·ted, com·mit·ting, com·mits
To place officially in confinement or custody, as in a mental health facility.