Sentence examples similar to dedication to purpose from inspiring English sources

When Bateson's great book Steps to an Ecology of Mind appeared in the 1970s, it seemed as if its analyses had so exposed the limitations and failures resulting from our dedication to "conscious purpose" that the latter's hegemony was under threat.

Graham Clive Owenn), retired from villainy, is a more reluctant score-settler than avid Jack Carter, and his easygoing wardrobe does not suggest unwavering dedication to a dire purpose.

The sense of mission, the dedication to a higher purpose, and the autonomy to make a difference in the world by using one's own unique skills and gifts -- that has all been increasingly stripped from the profession, and these students have watched it happen, or, worse yet, arrived on the scene after the stripping was done.

Mr. Ball would have wanted today's dedication to serve a larger purpose.

With grace and firm insistence, he taught us his conviction that the Society's success was attributable to its adherence with singleness of purpose, and dedication to the goals of its Founder, "to relieve poverty and distress, and especially the offering of temporary relief to unobtrusive suffering endured by industrious or worthy persons".

Passion and purpose is dedication to a cause, your cause.

Making our way along this snowy path requires renewed commitment to living with greater purpose, a dedication to leaving others enriched by newly designed, expanded contribution.

More than just performers, these men and women share their higher purpose and dedication to their mission with the audience between numbers and weave through their show their clear devotion to the arts, environment and community.

They are, the Deetzes put it, "a quasi-mythic group of people who are looked upon today as the founders of America, and whose dedication to hard work and noble purposes gave rise to our nation as we know it".

A higher score for the latent variable 'Behaviour: process' indicates that the respondent shows higher levels of dedication, pays explicit attention to purpose and procedure during the interview, determines the order of the discussion topics and looks for a compromise in the event of a difference of opinion.

The volume was introduced by a Prooemium, which gives a general statement of the purpose, followed by a Dedication to the King (James I) and a Preface, which is a summary of all "directions, motifs, and significance of his life-work" (Sessions 1996, 71).