Sentence examples for devote less energy from inspiring English sources
"Thaler deduced that marketers should devote less energy to promoting how absolutely wonderful their product is, and more to breaking it down, feature by feature, or selling several products in one bundle," Mr. Poundstone writes.
Analysts say frozen foods specialists are likely to see growth slow if shoppers begin to feel better off this year, and devote less energy to shopping around for the best deals.
Politicians might devote less energy to manufacturing fear and more energy to innovating on policy.
It's just that now, to a certain extent, the social stigma has eased to the point that some of us are comfortable devoting less energy to "passing".
There are also concerns that a series of soft flu seasons may actually increase our susceptibility to an epidemic, since our bodies would have devoted less energy to fighting the flu and creating immunity.
By devoting less energy to familiar sights, the brain is free to concentrate on the next new thing that comes along; the original image becomes a routine perception.
Most individuals in the U.S. devote less time, energy, and money to feeding ourselves than they ever have historically.
If growing incomes are not increasing happiness, perhaps we should tax incomes more to force us to devote less time and energy to the endeavor and focus instead on the more satisfying pursuit of leisure.
Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr., a hawkish Democrat, has reportedly urged the president to devote less of the country's energies to Afghanistan in order to apply them where they will do the most good — Pakistan.
In primate species with pronounced sexual size dimorphism, cycling females typically devote less time to feeding activity than males, because of lower energy demands (e.g. chacma baboons, P. hamadryas ursinus Weingrill et al. 2003).
Our study males did not only devote less time to feeding during mate-guarding, they also fed less on fruits, independent of fruit availability, further suggesting decreased energy intake associated with mate-guarding behaviour.
