Sentence examples for combined devotion from inspiring English sources

The campaign to make him president, however, was kept alive by his continued popularity and was carefully nurtured by a small group of his friends in Nashville, who combined devotion to the general with a high degree of political astuteness.

Swaminarayan encouraged his followers to combine devotion and dharma to lead a pious life.

Grossmith's comic masterpiece, first published in weekly episodes in Punch magazine in 1888, inspires a curious devotion combined with a fierce discriminatory zeal.

Obama's ambitious legislative agenda, combined with his stated devotion to judicial restraint, signals an approach in synch with this ideology.

But Chris has some original talent, too, which, combined with his slavish devotion to every Steel Dragon lyric, earns him an important phone call from Los Angeles.

The effect is like a piece of music, a gradual building of a sense of loss and time's passing, combined with a fanatical devotion to detail and a gently ironic regard for human frailty.

Many moderates condemned the league, but Parnell identified himself with it and became its first president, thus becoming the centre of the great "new departure" national movement in which revolutionary devotion was combined with agrarian agitation and was supported by the obstructionist tactics of the "active section" in Parliament.

He also managed to combine a serious devotion to public service and human betterment with an impish wit and sense of fun.

It gained a following in the 1990s for its obsessive devotion to movies combined with arch comments about celebrity life.

These poles of devotion and deed combined in Heschel's activist politics in the 1960s, resulting in positions that still tend to determine his reputation.

Foot added that Driberg "had always been much too ready to look forgivingly on Communist misdeeds, but this attitude was combined with an absolutely genuine devotion to the cause of peace".