Keeping them successfully requires a large commitment in time and experience.
But one music industry executive said his company was told that Microsoft had made a large financial commitment to market a player this year.
Either way can involve a large commitment of cash for your business.
Building schools is the largest financial commitment most communities make.
By contrast, she said, the insurance industry has made no such large commitment of capital to the state's poor urban areas.
Few investors seemed willing to make large commitments ahead of the jobs number.
The fund is the largest financial commitment made by any American corporation toward child care.
A far larger commitment, though, would be nearly impossible within a public company, which must answer to its shareholders.
"This is the largest single financial commitment we've ever made and there's no guarantee we'll make our money back."
The program is one of the largest environmental commitments ever made by the city.