This function was served, with astonishing devotion to the purpose of the Bill of Rights, by the Warren Court for 15 years.
Laud, as he himself was well aware, failed; but his devotion to a coherent purpose and his repudiation of hypocrisy, compromise, and corruption in allies and enemies of whatever class were rare and admirable qualities.
Both a devotion to the underlying purpose of the Lands Act's absorption of state law and a weighing of the equities requires nonretroactive application of the state statute of limitations here.
Devotion to particular rules can be fanatical.
Devotion to the skulls still exists today.
He had a humorless, soldierly quality — one of his nicknames was "Sarge" — and he seemed like a marine on the ice, all purpose and devotion to plan.
He had a humorless, soldierly quality—one of his nicknames was "Sarge"—and he seemed like a marine on the ice, all purpose and devotion to plan.
Mr. Critchley is listed as head philosopher of the International Necronautical Society, an avant-garde group whose Web page (necronauts.org) says its central tenet is "inauthenticity" and its purpose is devotion to the study of death, a "space which we intend to map, colonize and eventually inhabit".
They are bound together by common purpose, mutual trust, and selfless devotion to our nation and to each other.
While the adage 'the car is the star' holds true, for readers, the real magic is in the owners' ritual devotion to the annual event that gives their prized possession purpose.
For all practical purposes, that's where Don Quixote's devotion to the cause of chivalry gets him.
