Sentence examples for devoted during the from inspiring English sources

All efforts will be devoted, during the first year of the government, to reaching an agreed solution with the Palestinian Authority (without any preconditions as to who its leader will be, and without giving the terrorist organizations the opportunity to stop negotiations through violence).

Although substantial effort has been devoted during the past decades to the establishment of a testing procedure for low permeable geomaterials, no consistent protocol can be found.

A great deal of effort has been devoted during the past 20 years to defining the chemical nature of prions, the infectious agents responsible for transmissible spongiform encephalopathies.

They work on their research project throughout the calendar year, with more extensive time devoted during the summer.

But to crystallize essences in this way, to create the notion of floweriness, rather than to describe an actual flower, demands an extremely subtle and complex use of all the resources of language, and Mallarmé devoted himself during the rest of his life to putting his theories into practice in what he called his Grand Oeuvre ("Great Work"), or Le Livre ("The Book").

It was the abolition movement, however, to which Tappan devoted himself during the latter part of his life.

Recently, Deputy Prime Minister John Prescott pledged to devote $87 billion during the next 10 years to improving the structural condition of Britain's railways.

Among his sources of inspiration was a picture book on the 19th-century painter George Catlin (1796-1872), probably the first American artist of talent to devote himself, during the 1830's, to firsthand study of American Indians.

Almost double the amount of party leader quotes or story space was devoted to Ukip during the campaign period (until the campaign's last week when negative stories of the Scottish "menace" proliferated).

Besides the actions taken by households to manage fevers, information on direct cash expenses paid by households during a fever and the monetary value or equivalent of caretaker time devoted to the child during a fever are needed for this analysis.

I hunted for a sign of Hitler among the fading memorabilia and finally found in a remote corner, devoted to the festival during the 1930s, a single, tiny, out of focus, almost indecipherable photograph in which he's waving from the balcony outside the opera house.