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The charitable interpretation of this is that the EU—still angry at the refusal of the U.S. to implement Basel II and its subsequent failure to stop the subprime bubble—is leaving enough loopholes in its draft to ensure that, if Wall Street manages to wriggle out of the constraints proposed under Dodd-Frank, it isn't precommitted to Basel III's far more onerous requirements.

EU's Proposal to Implement Basel III Undermines Spirit Geoffrey T. Smith 2011

Answering questions, Mr. Trichet clarified that: "We are in a mode where there might be, at the next meeting, an increase of rates, but we are never precommitted."

Europe Bank Chief Signals Rate Rise Geoffrey T. Smith 2011

Unlike the Europeans, though, the Zionists were generally precommitted to trying to get along with their Arab neighbors, and got the land that they settled through purchase, not force.

The Volokh Conspiracy » Genetic Evidence Shows Common Origins of Jews 2010

Answering questions, Mr. Trichet clarified that: "We are in a mode where there might be, at the next meeting, an increase of rates, but we are never precommitted."

Europe Bank Chief Signals Rate Rise Geoffrey T. Smith 2011

It is not clear to me in the least that evolutionary theorists must be precommitted to ruling such possibilities out of court a priori — nor, more generally, that they must defend the current state of biological thinking as a finished product, with no major discoveries to come.

Evolving Standards 2008

Unlike the Europeans, though, the Zionists were generally precommitted to trying to get along with their Arab neighbors, and got the land that they settled through purchase, not force.

The Volokh Conspiracy » Genetic Evidence Shows Common Origins of Jews 2010

Dude, those two precommitted to endorsing the winner of their district.

Hillary Picks Up Another Super-Del 2009

Even many of the spiritualists, who were precommitted to belief in disembodied human spirits, seances, and so forth, allowed that Sidgwick was as fair-minded as any non-mystic could be.

Henry Sidgwick Schultz, Barton 2006

The two-year German Schatz yield rose to a 3-1/2-week high of 1.114 percent after Trichet said the bank had not precommitted not to move rates and added that they had hiked rates in

GLOBAL MARKETS-Euro soars on debt auctions, Wall St dips on data - Yahoo! UK & Ireland Finance 2011

It's another to have to get there from Toronto on a precommitted schedule.

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