Sentence examples for claims to devote from inspiring English sources

He claims to devote his life to literature but is unable to see much beyond the rebellious workings of his own body.

For the last several years, my wife's uncle has racked up a nearly 0.750 winning average in the weekly family football pool — besting the rest of us by a solid 60 points, while claiming to devote little attention to the process.

One school claimed to devote 102 hours to teaching how evolution applies to specific medical problems.

How can a party that claims to be devoted to liberty be the enemy of civil liberties?

They claim that were men to devote as much time to fathering as women devote to mothering and were women to work just as hard in the world of enterprise as men do, then children would no longer identify home with women and work with men.

He also claimed Mr Varadarajan had refused to devote sufficient coverage to India's main opposition candidate, Narendra Modi, a Hindu nationalist and one of country's most divisive politicians, who is accused of stoking tensions that led to the killings of Muslims in 2002.

Mr. Blair is running on a record of economic competence -- the first time a Labor government has been able to make such a claim -- and a promise to devote the proceeds of tight-fisted management of the treasury during his first term to stepped-up funding for public services in his second.

Russian President Vladimir Putin has responded to Canada's plans to extend its Arctic territorial claim by calling on his military to devote 'special attention' to the region.

Yet I can't help wondering if something else ought to happen, too: namely, that pundits who claim to be devoted to free speech should grow a thicker skin.

There were the victims and the perpetrators: the victims were innocent and therefore worthy of sympathy; the perpetrators, shielded by an institution claiming to be devoted to love and justice, were betrayers or criminals -- depending on your worldview.

The museum may claim to be devoted to the entire state – marquee posters tout movies such as The Black Stallion, which was shot at a nearby beach – but half of the museum is focused on The Goonies.