Sentence examples for because of devotion to from inspiring English sources

In football, cricket and rugby, fans follow the sport because of devotion to a team and for the sport itself.

In fact, in the wake of my previous article ("LGBT Catholics March Not in Defiance, but in Love," June 27), I received a number of emails, tweets and Facebook messages that have questioned why I don't just become an Episcopalian or argue that I should leave the Church because of my apparent lack of devotion to the Magisterium (the teaching authority of the Church).

A lifetime of devotion to the Janus of orthopedics.

Beaton, an inveterate dandy, social striver, and occasionally merciless diarist, was a great chronicler of society and celebrity not only because of his devotion to the social scenes he inhabited but because of his passion for his individual subjects and his commitment to capturing their charisma on film.

Beaton, an inveterate dandy, social striver, and* *occasionally merciless diarist, was a great chronicler of society and celebrity not only because of his devotion to the social scenes he inhabited but because of his passion for his individual subjects and his commitment to capturing their charisma on film.

(He is, though, a familiar figure on his stretch of the Upper East Side because of his devotion to several dogs he walks regularly in Central Park).

Two thoroughly English sons of friends of mine were unshakably Swedish in their sympathies, because of their devotion to the midfielder Freddie Ljungberg (Ljungberg's secret, somewhat depressingly, seems to be the child-friendly red stripe in his hair), and they were both devastated when Sweden went out to Senegal.

Because of my devotion to the dog, and their lack of an alternative, Misha and Rita added their house key to the shoelace hanging around my neck.

But he said he ultimately accepted the job because of his devotion to his state and the sense of obligation he developed as a marine.

"Rose is fond of the blacks, as I am, perhaps because of our devotion to our beautiful black nurse Ozzie," Williams wrote, somewhat awkwardly, in his 1975 "Memoirs".

She was taking on the job for herself, because she was ambitious; she was taking it on because of her devotion to the cause, but she was doing it also for the women of the world.