The phrase "a decision to devote" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing a choice or resolution to dedicate time, resources, or effort to a particular task or cause.
Example: "After much consideration, she made a decision to devote her weekends to volunteering at the local shelter."
Alternatives: "a choice to dedicate" or "a resolution to commit".
Some 44% of the successful recruits were actually overqualified".As the French see it, joining the civil service is not generally considered a track like any other, but a decision to devote one's life to the public interest," purrs an official report.
This led to a decision to devote several seasons almost exclusively to these works, specifically concertos by Igor Stravinsky, Bela Bartok, Alban Berg, Sergei Prokofiev, William Walton, Benjamin Britten, Samuel Barber and Paul Hindemith.
One can even imagine a national decision to devote a larger proportion of national resources to the care of the old, given that a larger proportion of the population will be old — preferably to be paid for by taxing something we'd like to see less of (like fossil-fuel consumption) instead of something we'd like to see more of (like jobs).
Unknown and heading into a season in which established and fledgling e-commerce firms were dumping millions into holiday ad blitzes, the company made a clear decision to devote a third of its money to advertising in order to put its name on the map.
Soon my phone was hot with calls for interviews and articles – we even had the Mail and the Telegraph trying to outbid each other – and I made a conscious decision to devote a year of my life to raising awareness of the dangers of ketamine.
SirI am outraged that a respected newspaper has made an editorial decision to devote the obituary section to a character like Anna Nicole Smith and only a small column to the passing of a respected journalist Ryszard Kapuscinski.Would you please explain yourself.
The theory holds that offspring are happy when parents are happy, so a mother's decision to devote herself to a demanding, fulfilling career is in the best interests of her entire family.
PAGE A45 EXTINCTION-LEVEL TELEVISION EVENT In an Op-Ed article, Alan Sepinwall, the television critic of The Star Ledger of Newark, argues that NBC's decision to devote a time slot every weeknight to a new Jay Leno talk show presages the demise of the big television networks.
It's precisely this inevitable erasure that makes MOMA's decision to devote an entire gallery to a single Ono book — "Grapefruit," her 1964 compendium of conceptual-art instructions — feel so crucial and rewarding.
Salem's decision to devote a portion of her family's fortune to the cause was impressive, but she is hardly the only person who was touched by the substance's potential.
Frozen by the novel's narrative elements, I'll take a side door and discuss form, namely what Jon discussed last Monday when he wrote about Jonathan Franzen's decision to devote a large section of the novel to the supposed autobiography of Patty Berglund, one half of the novel's central couple.
