Sentence examples for chair devoted to from inspiring English sources

It's fitting that the government of India endowed Columbia University with a chair devoted to Mr. Ambedkar, since he had obtained masters and doctoral degrees from the institution.

The money will be used to establish a special services center for part-time students and faculty conferences and to endow a Langone professorship, a chair devoted to teaching part-time students.

In the mid-1990s he was able to move back to Cambridge, to a chair devoted to parapsychological research: since the whole burden of his interest in the subject was that he did not believe in it, he wrote Soul Searching, a book arguing that telepathy must be in principle impossible, and that Jesus was a conjuring charlatan like Uri Geller.

By then K. L. Reinhold (1758 1823), whose Letters on the Kantian Philosophy (1786) popularized Kant's moral and religious ideas, had been installed (in 1787) in a chair devoted to Kantian philosophy at Jena, which was more centrally located than Königsberg and rapidly developing into the focal point of the next phase in German intellectual history.

Established through a bequest of William G. McRoberts in 1953, the McRoberts chair is devoted to the scientific study of the administration of the law.

He also endowed the Kenneth L. Fisher Chair in Redwood Forest Ecology at Humboldt State University, apparently the first time a chair was devoted to a single species of tree.

On the strength of his newfound fame as author of the Letters, Reinhold was invited to be the inaugural occupant of the first professorial chair devoted exclusively to the new Kantian philosophy, and thus he began lecturing at the University of Jena in 1787.

Bob Tisch played a major role in New York's business and civic life, chairing countless organizations devoted to improving life for all New Yorkers.

I can't be a good designer if I only read every website devoted to chair design.

Still later he was devoted to chairing and fundraising for the Martin County Literacy Council and the Lyric Theatre.

One of the things I can't forget about my before-the-computer years at New York's City & Country School is -- very simply -- this: The library there, with its worn-out wicker chairs, was a place devoted to reading for pleasure.