Sentence examples for devoted a portion of from inspiring English sources
London Business School's Business Strategy Review has devoted a portion of its most recent issue to the London Olympics, to begin at the end of next month.
At the same time, though, clerics associated with Moktada al-Sadr, an anti-American cleric with significant influence in Sadr City, have devoted a portion of Friday Prayer services to inveighing against homosexuality.
Proving conclusively that a discussion of art with Steve Martin can be funny and entertaining, Stephen Colbert devoted a portion of his "Colbert Report" on Wednesday night to an erudite exercise with Mr. Martin, the art collector, "Object of Beauty" author and occasional adversary of the 92nd Street Y.
In September, the American Chemical Society's main deliberative body devoted a portion of its annual meeting to considering ways to make the nation's academic labs safer.
His daughter Ivanka Trump devoted a portion of her Republican National Convention speech to the topic, promising policies to help women that fell outside the party platform.
President Barack Obama devoted a portion of his farewell address Tuesday to his wife and daughters, thanking them for supporting him in his political career.
I suggested devoting a portion of the collection to works of art in glass, either blown or cast in molds.
Indeed, so befogged are students about online postings — especially to FaceBook, MySpace and the like — that universities commonly devote a portion of freshman orientation to wising them up.
The counter-argument is that it is better to have such corporations devoting a portion of their profits to promote reading, books and writers.
He boasts that he made it the most gay-friendly city in Asia, even devoting a portion of the municipal budget to homosexual causes.
