Sentence examples for chiefly devoted to from inspiring English sources

To date, conservative political activity has been chiefly devoted to erecting a strong restraining influence against liberal measures.

The date of the magazine is Dec. 9, 1940, and the issue is chiefly devoted to war preparations on the Princeton campus.

Still, the cosmic physics would be heavy sledding in any book chiefly devoted to Einstein's life and times, and Mr. Isaacson acknowledges that.

He also resents her frequent visits to Northern Ireland, chiefly devoted to bridge-building exercises between the two communities.If loyalists cannot march down O'Connell Street in safety, a state visit by the British monarch, which had been under active preparation, suddenly seems less likely to take place as well.

Far less enchanting is a gallery that is chiefly devoted to paintings by the young Rembrandt — including his dramatically shadowed, gustily proto-Romantic self-portrait, made at the age of twenty-two — but is raddled with lesser art, ceramics, and furniture whose presence is justified by the fact that Rembrandt knew and liked their makers.

Mrs. Clinton's campaign event in Sioux City was chiefly devoted to fighting autism; she pledged to spend $700 million a year to expand research on the causes of autism and monitor its impact nationwide, and to create a task force to investigate treatments and services for those with autism.

When Ball began to use the six-foot reflector in February, 1866, nearly all the larger and more interesting nebulae had been frequently observed and carefully drawn, and he therefore chiefly devoted himself to work with the micrometer, a difficult task, since the telescope at that time had not yet been provided with a clock motion.

Until de Valois, ballet in the West was chiefly an art devoted to the new.

It should be noted that most papers devoted to the CW studies are based chiefly on the observations of the Earth rotation obtained in the period from 1899 (start of the International Latitude Service) till the end of 1990s.

The photographs were chiefly taken in the meeting rooms, banquet halls, and other spaces devoted to the gatherings; they feature attendees, speakers, religious dedications, and cultural entertainments put on for the benefit of the participants.

While his early work was devoted to number theory and analysis, after 1900 he was chiefly occupied with probability theory.