Sentence examples for before deciding to devote from inspiring English sources

He practiced law for three years before deciding to devote his full-time energies to campus ministry.

BBC1 controller Danny Cohen said the corporation had thought carefully before deciding to devote almost the whole of his channel and BBC3's schedule to the games.

He said that Mr. McConnell would like to lessen the party divisions before deciding to devote weeks of scarce Senate floor time to the criminal justice proposition.

Reared by his grandmother, Narayan completed his education in 1930 and briefly worked as a teacher before deciding to devote himself to writing.

Mr. Syjuco, who once held entry-level jobs at The New Yorker and other magazines before deciding to devote himself full time to writing, is clearly from the educated upper classes that he skewers in his book.

He earned a master's degree from Brown University and studied for a Ph.D. at Georgetown before deciding to devote his life to chess, both as a player and as an organizer.

Born in Barcelona in April 1893, Miró was 18 before he decided to devote himself to painting.

Last year, Sean Penn, introducing Julia Roberts for "August: Osage County," pretty much set the tone for the night: "Is 'Sorry, I've been rambling too much,' a bad way to start a speech?" But that was before CBS decided to devote its entire prime-time programming block to the event, putting the Hollywood Film Awards, in its 18th year, on television for the first time.

Long before Pilati hatched his plan, New York-based designer Yansi Fugel decided to devote the bulk of her collection to travel-appropriate clothing; she began in 2000, calling it Yansi Fugel Travel Jersey.

Time Warner Cable had already decided to devote 80percentt of its philanthropy efforts to science and math education before Mr. Obama's speech in April.

It's early, of course; maybe Romney will decide to devote himself to fighting global warming and make an Oscar-winning film; that move has worked before.