bind oneself

It is so provincial to bind oneself to views which are no longer binding a couple of hundred miles away.

"But to promise to abjure under condition of being set free, is to bind oneself to abjure," answered Joan, disconcerted by the canon's sophism.

One doesn't bind oneself for life after having spent one evening together; it doesn't follow that he who has enjoyed the rapture, must also undergo the pain.

As she expressed it, it was one thing to obey God, but quite another thing to bind oneself to obey a man for a lifetime.

It would be no use to bind oneself to do a variety of things which may not be required.