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But she said a referendum in Colorado in 1992, which barred local jurisdictions from protecting gay people, persuaded Mr. Gill to devote a sizable chunk of his fortune to advocating for and assisting gay men and lesbians.

Even as the prices have come down on the large screens, Best Buy has continued to devote a sizable section of their store space to TV gallery-viewing.

I devoted a sizable chunk of section time to proof techniques.

There's Vinny, who fancies himself evolved above the average guido but still devotes a sizable chunk of his day to waxing his eyebrows.

This is not a diet book, but Dr. Kessler devotes a sizable section to "food rehab," offering practical advice for using the science of overeating to our advantage, so that we begin to think differently about food and take back control of our eating habits.

At its recent annual meeting, the MLA devoted a sizable portion of its Delegate Assembly meeting to the topic (the Delegate Assembly is the representative body of the association).

Short cocktail dresses have their place around the corner, and Sealfons devotes a sizable share of its floor space to the teen-targeted clothing it labels "contemporary".

Although it has a sizable Jewish enrollment, Columbia, which donated the land for the Kraft center, was the last of the Ivy League universities to devote a building for its Jewish students, said Rabbi Charles H. Sheer, the Jewish chaplain.

When Mr. Durling found that the area's sizable Latino population wasn't being represented, he devoted a third of his festival's slots to films by Hispanic filmmakers.

There is a sizable literature devoted to analytically deriving the probability of a majority cycle occurring in election scenarios of varying sizes (see Gehrlein 2006, and Regenwetter et al. 2006, for overviews of this literature).

A sizable portion is devoted to unscrambling Miss Eastlake's cryptic messages, then tracking down and stifling the ghouls to which they point.