Sentence examples for common devotion to from inspiring English sources

In 1860 Everett was the unsuccessful vice presidential candidate of the Constitutional Union Party, which sought to bridge sectional differences by stressing common devotion to the Union and the Constitution.

By the 8th century the city league (a group of cities with a common devotion to the same sanctuary) had become the normal political institution among the Aeolians, Ionians, and Dorians.

They are creating mini-societies, each with a common devotion to one regime, and along with it the giddy sense of being in on something new, of belonging to a group that's cool.

BASIM MAGDY: THE STARS WERE ALIGNED FOR A CENTURY OF NEW BEGINNINGS The work of the Egyptian-born artist Basim Magdy ranges from paintings on paper and canvas to photography and film, all with a common devotion to color and an exploration of the gap between utopian aspirations and human failures.

His congregation, which had never numbered more than 25, grew in the next few years to include a kind of nonsectarian contingent of writers, performers and, eventually, 3,500 season-ticket subscribers — a group Mr. Lanier described as bound less by religious affiliation than by a common devotion to theater with a capital "T".

Court records suggest Garat and Orman, then and now a licensed California insurance salesperson with an office in that Oakland suburb, shared a common devotion to an Indian guru.

Beyond being foreigners in Paris, all they had in common was devotion to personal and artistic freedom.

THERE is one thing that Britney Spears, circa-1980s Madonna, Gwen Stefani, "I Dream of Jeannie," the Spice Girls, "Clueless" and Matt Dillon in "Over the Edge" have in common: a devotion to the crop top.

WASHINGTON — In nearly a dozen recent terrorism cases in the United States, Britain and Canada, investigators discovered the suspects had something in common: a devotion to the message of Anwar al-Awlaki, an eloquent Muslim cleric who has turned the Web into a tool for extremist indoctrination.

Oh! Patti and I share one more common trait: a devotion to visiting the places of writers, whether homes, graves, or the settings they wrote about.

Reverence for deified ancestors is common, as is devotion to a pantheon of divinities derived from South Asian Hinduism, a religion once pervasive in Indonesia but found there now only in Bali.