Marks & Spencer has begun a trial scheme to increase the size of its food halls and cut back on the space it devotes to fashion as its clothing sales continue to slump.
Although Deutsch is, as Galchen puts it, "devoted to the idea that science can explain the world," that devotion sometimes leads him beyond the bounds of conventional science.
The usage is one of the company key differentiators, even as it devotes resources to tech advances surrounding latency, 3D audio and high-detail environments.
It means "not promoting other people's" or, as the dictionary puts it, "devoted to or concerned with one's own advantage to the exclusion of regard for others".
The debate goes back to Plato, who, in "The Republic," shows Socrates distinguishing the "healthy State" — of sustenance — from the "luxurious" one, at "fever heat," with the need for constant growth as it devotes ever more resources to its superstructure of comforts and cultural productions.
Interestingly Plista hasn't taken venture money yet and may not need it as it devotes part of its team to consulting while working on the project.
Senghor's own "Introduction" is just five short paragraphs as it devoted only to the technicalities of selecting the poets gathered in the book (interestingly, unlike Damas, his choice is restricted to the "Blacks", the Malagasies being according to him "mélaniens" (Senghor 1948, 2)).
However, the series is set in the present day in a seaside town in Oregon rather than the inland California town of the film - thus the series is a reboot, though it's been widely reviewed as a prequel, as it is devoted to providing a backstory to a younger Norman Bates prior to his becoming a murderer.
Chloe has two other half siblings, but she isn't as devoted to them as she is to Ruby, who is Chloe's mentor and protector.
And AFSCME members are as devoted to electing them as we are to providing great public services.
