This feat had impressed Abramovic, who felt that Akers had demonstrated the "hard-core" devotion to his craft necessary to understand hers.
The notion of a Snuggie (emblem of the silliness of U.S. commercialism) as a gateway to wearing a burka (emblem of hard-core religious devotion) is an inspired, deceptively complex, Sarah Silverman-esque bit of cultural criticism.
But in the courtroom, he ran from each of these choices and decisions – which are at the core of his devotion to jihad".
Rubio's third pillar, "Defending Freedom" is supposed to be about America's core values and devotion to human rights and democratic principles.
On Wednesday, the Justice Ministry posted an explanation with the oath that said its goal was to, among other things, ensure that lawyers followed the core values of "loyalty, devotion to the people, justice and probity".
But contra Ginsberg, our key campus administrators are bona fide academics who've demonstrated genuine devotion to core academic principles.
A person familiar with our country's core values -- our devotion to democratic self-governance, as well as to "uninhibited, robust, and wide-open" debate, New York Times Co. v. Sullivan, 376 U. S. 254, 270 (1964) -- might expect this Court to celebrate, or at least not to interfere with, the second State's success.
One of the many ways the Marine Corps nurtures a healthy devotion to the core values of our American republic is through its combat art program.
In an op-ed essay for The Australian last week, Mr. Assange, a 39-year-old Australian citizen who is currently being held in Britain on sex charges from Sweden, declared his devotion to some core Western press values.
After a sexually profligate youth, narrowly escaping some rather serious venereal diseases, he suddenly settled for the much older and somewhat eccentric widow of his parliamentary running mate, Wyndham Lewis; their mutual devotion is the core of Hibbert's book.
One of the "quorum of 70" (the next layer of authority after the apostles) is Japanese and another British.Wherever it goes, the faith retains a Middle Western flavour, with its mixture of social conservatism, philanthropy, worldly shrewdness and devotion to a core set of beliefs.
