Sentence examples for attempt to devote from inspiring English sources

In the more ruthlessly market-researched world of American TV, the main networks attempt to devote precisely zero minutes of airtime to the Republican and Democrat conventions, for the obvious reason that no one normal is in the slightest bit interested in watching parties talk to themselves.

Finally, Muḥammad ʿAlī had to devote much of his effort to resisting attempts by his Ottoman overlord to remove him from office.

It is increasingly seen as desirable for the health R&D system to devote some resources to attempting to enhance the health literacy of both the general public and parts of the mass media.

"They continued to devote themselves to the craft and the language that Hitler had attempted to murder".

With an explosion of Live media apps, will new services attempt to differentiate in verticals devoted to niche communities?

In an attempt to leapfrog Toyota, GM has devoted significant resources to the Chevy Volt".

Her car breaks down, she is arrested for shoplifting, and is separated from Lucy; much of the film is devoted to her attempt to find her.

The Duke took the opportunity to call into the Somerset museum's Monmouth Rebellion room, devoted to an attempt to overthrow the Monarchy 300 years ago.

Direct applications of computer technology in higher education have largely been devoted to an attempt to import standard classroom activities into a web environment.

Wallace, whose theory played such a crucial part in severing the relationship between science and religion, then devoted himself to the attempt to link them again.

The "irascible and headstrong mathematician from Tuscany," Galileo, was the best-known member of the group, devoted to "an extraordinary attempt to document all of nature -- both of the Old World and the New -- in visual form".