"The club shall continue to offer him and his family its full support and assistance in the legal, fiscal and administrative aspects of these proceedings". Messi's lawyers have argued that the player had "never devoted a minute of his life to reading, studying or analysing" the contracts, El Pais newspaper have reported.
In the few remaining hours before parliament is dissolved, MPs devote a few minutes here and there to discussing outstanding bills to push them into legislation – the "wash-up", as it's become known.
The main door opened, the escort committee returned, and behind it was Bush — without his usual grin, but by no means so sombre that he didn't devote a few minutes, on the way to the lectern, to getting in his share of shoulder grabs and soulful handclasps and whispered intimacies.
Kristin Kane, a family support specialist for the Virginia Parent Educational Advocacy Training Center who also blogs for Understood.org, likes to devote a few minutes to identifying the good and challenging things from the day, or what she calls "thorns and roses". The mom of three says she makes sure to end the conversation with the roses.
We would perhaps devote a good 10 minutes to the various stories & jokes & things that are related to that film series.
Mr. Clinton devotes a full minute, and sounds particularly emphatic, on the next bit — asserting that other nations and world leaders are pulling for Mrs. Clinton's election in 2008.
A14 Republican officials demanded that the major television networks devote "not a minute more" of air time to the Democrats' convention than they had to the Republicans'.
The demand by Jim Nicholson, the Republican chairman, that the networks devote "not a minute more" to the Democratic Convention than they did to the G.O.P. gathering is clearly ludicrous.
