Sentence examples for based on devotion from inspiring English sources

"It is a curious celebration based on devotion to the saints, in a land that is profoundly secular," she said.

Under the Guptas, a renewed Hinduism based on devotion rather than the management of ritual began to assert itself.

AOL's historic success is based on the devotion of its users to AOL chat rooms and other ways of communicating with one another.

If residents can be forgiven for presuming to know New York, then visitors to this city, including Republican delegates from around the country, can be forgiven for embracing a similar delusion: of thinking that they, too, know New York, based on a devotion to "Law and Order" and a three-day business trip to a Sheraton near Times Square.

Here is your chance to have a relationship based on loving devotion, companionship and fierce loyalty.

Laffer's rankings are based on states' devotion to "15 policy variables" as viewed through their top marginal income and corporate tax rates, whether they levy an estate tax (big demerit for doing so), whether they have anti-union right-to-work laws (having them is a plus) and a relatively low minimum wage.

The photo "Shovelling Manure" was based on his famous devotion to collecting fertilizer for the fields.

Yet the two Frenchmen, along with a band of like-minded listeners, formed a club (they even obtained an official police permit) based on a passionate devotion to Bix and Louis and Eddie Lang and Joe Venuti.

But in this matter it would be a shame to throw out the I.N.S.'s careful consideration based on a slavish devotion to the literal words of the statute.

Its theme is more radical than anything he has written before; although it is based on his long devotion to Taha's ideas, it goes beyond them and, according to some of Taha's followers, leaves them behind.

The continued pursuit of Polanski by the Los Angeles D.A.'s office, whether right or wrong, whether based on a disinterested devotion to procedural justice or a frothing pursuit of vengeance, is no surprise; I wouldn't expect many prosecutors' offices to behave differently.