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commit

(Entrust), verb allot, assign, authorize, charge, charge with, commission, confer a trust, confide, consign, convey, delegate, employ, empower, engage, grant auuhority to, invest, invest with power, make responsible for, put an obligation upon, put in the hands of, relegate to, trust, turn over to, vest in
Associated concepts: commit to a writing

commit

(Institutionalize), verb arrest, confine, consign, constrain, deliver into custody, enthrall, hold in constraint, hold in restraint, immure, impound, imprison, incarcerate, intern, jail, lock up, place in confinement, put in custody, recommit to custody, remand to custody, remit to custody, restrain, send to an asylum, send to jail, send to prison
Associated concepts: commit to a hospital, commit to a mennal institution, commit to prison, committing magistrate

commit

(Perpetrate), verb accomplish, achieve, act, act on, administer, apply oneself to, be a participator in, be a party to, be an accomplice, be engaged in, be engrossed in, bring about, bring to pass, carry into execution, carry on, carry out, carry through, complete, consummate, discharge the duties of, effect, employ oneself, finish, fulfill, go through with, inflict, occupy oneself with, operate, participate in, perform, realize, transact
Associated concepts: commit an offense against the United States

TO COMMIT. To send a person to prison by virtue of a warrant or other lawful writ, for the commission of a crime, offence or misdemeanor, or for a contempt, or non-payment of a debt.

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The law would be applied equally to those intending to commit, plan, supervise, or fund the crimes

Cabinet discusses draft law to combat 'serious crimes of aggression'

If you resubmit a failing program that issues no COMMITs, the program redoes work unnecessarily.

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Step three is to evaluate remaining core projects and commit to three to five compelling ideas.

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Young people sometimes commit terrible crimes, including murder.

Locked away forever: almost 10,000 Americans are serving life sentences for crimes they committed before they turned 18

As in the stalk block, the receiver will explode off the LOS and settle down to make the defender commit. By squaring up with the defender, he can take him whichever way he wants to go.

Touchdown blocks: they look good on your receivers. (Football)

* In some instances, CEOs commit financial statement fraud because of personal financial difficulties.

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Commit personnel and discretionary resources, including the Regional Rehabilitation Continuing Education Program (RRCEP) and In-Service Training, to achieve the Streamlining Objectives.

The agreement to streamline the public vocational rehabilitation process

The criteria that the authors suggest are intentionally narrow, designed to identify a small number of killers who fall at the extreme end of the spectrum of offenders who commit murder or manslaughter.

Lethal predators and future dangerousness

Criminologist Gil Geis, a former member of the President's Crime Council, says there's a correlation between crime and age: "Younger people--especially males--are likely to commit more traditional crimes such as robbery, larceny and assault.

So that's why it's called a pyramid scheme

The following paragraph commits countries that accept the convention to provide detailed information, periodically, on their policies to reduce emissions, "with the aim of returning individually or jointly to their 1990 levels." This paragraph mentions no timetable for reaching such levels.

Climate treaty avoids strict CO2 limits

The above cases illustrate that if a non-Indian commits a crime against an Indian on a reservation then the federal government has jurisdiction.

Indian Tribal Sovereignty

An agreement between two or more people to commit a crime constitutes a conspiracy.