Sentence examples for devote himself in from inspiring English sources

Eisenhower has said that he intends to devote himself in his second term to winning the ideological laggards in his party over to the principles of "modern Republicanism", which makes extensive use of the federal authority.

Crucial to his extraordinary early productivity was the decision to shun the talk, infighting, and publicity of literary centres and live instead in what was then the small-town remoteness of Oxford, where he was already at home and could devote himself, in near isolation, to actual writing.

As a priest, he could easily have devoted himself in such a time of persecution to personal devotions that would have drawn him closer to God (and saved his own neck), but instead he opted to help those in need and include those the powers-that-be demanded be excluded.

Arthur enjoyed a long and successful career as a CPA, and he devoted himself in every way to Congregation Habonim, founded by Holocaust survivors.

The dominant force in Serkin's life was the German violinist Adolf Busch, a brilliant player who detested virtuoso showmanship and devoted himself in almost monkish fashion to the heights of the German chamber and solo repertory.

But the colonel is also the voter-registration coordinator for Franklin County, and it is that role to which he has devoted himself in these early months of the campaign.

"Le Testament de Villon" was recorded complete, in 1971, by a cast from the touring and educational wing of the San Francisco Opera under Robert Hughes, a Bay Area composer and conductor who has devoted himself in a major way to unearthing and promoting Pound's musical legacy and who is the driving force behind the CD as well.

This is the chief problem to which Mr. Darwin devotes himself in his last work..."...

Oliver will be devoting himself in the immediate future to his responsibilities at Helmut Lang".

He was quite solitary and devoted himself in such a focused way to writing his poems and to the life of the mind.

In 1905 he withdrew from illustrative work to devote himself to portraiture in oil, which he had already taken up; but within a few years he again returned to illustration.