Now comes the real moment of marriage: dedicating oneself to a partnership of fallen beings, "for better or for worse," in full sight of the worse.
A male sociologist told me to forget about pursuing family life because to dedicate oneself to the sociologists calling was a full-time endeavor (unless, of course, one had a wife).
Believing in this possibility — no matter how slim — and dedicating oneself to playing a meaningful role in the struggle to make it a reality focuses one's energy and attention in an unusual way.
Unless one dedicates oneself to the intense study of both languages equally, it cannot be said that one is bilingual.
Is the exile self imposed by dedicating oneself to making effigies?
For weeks an online petition had been gathering signatures (more than 9,000 to date) calling for the Met to dedicate opening night to gay Russians as a protest against the law signed in June by President Vladimir V. Putin banning "propaganda on nontraditional sexual relationships".
Vow, sacred voluntary promise to dedicate oneself or members of one's family or community to a special obligation that goes beyond usual social or religious requirements.
So we are glad to see the effort continue, especially now that the weather's turned nicer (having attended inaugurations, we know how incredibly dedicated you have to be to protest anything in January in Washington).
Two days after the start of the Occupy Wall Street protests, a pair of young Web designers, unable to travel to New York to take part in the demonstration, created a simple digital hub for the growing number of Facebook and Twitter pages dedicated to spreading the protest to new places.
He threatened to lead a protest when the memorial was dedicated in 1997.
For UC Berkeley, 2017 was a year of speaking up and leading the way — with Chancellor Carol Christ becoming the first woman to lead the campus in July, and dedicating the year to free speech after a protest over alt-right provocateur Milo Yiannopoulos that made national headlines.
