The Fed does not surprise markets often, and this has been especially true of the Ben Bernanke-led Fed, which has devoted enormous time and effort to better communication, greater transparency, and timely management of expectations.
"That has put a damper on it". When Clinton was president, he devoted enormous time and energy to wooing donors — spending hours at fundraisers, holding coffees in the White House, golfing with favored fat cats — to a degree that exposed him to well-deserved criticism.
He devoted enormous time and energy preaching against the incompatibility of Christianity and war, and nuclear weapons.
The official rate is higher than in almost any other country, which forces companies to devote enormous time and effort to finding loopholes.
These musicians must devote enormous time and energy to practising and preparing their music; travelling to rehearsals at evenings and weekends when their friends have their feet up; promoting their orchestra and raising money to make it all possible.
They found that dancers who devote enormous time and effort to developing awareness of and precise control over their muscles – a theme coincidentally raised in the new ballet movie "Black Swan" – do not have a stronger mind-body connection than do most other people.
Instead, Muskie devoted enormous amounts of time to studying issues, listening to witnesses at hearings, and talking to his colleagues in an effort to reach agreement on sensible legislation to advance the public good.
The New York Times has devoted enormous resources to coverage of school shootings, rampage killings, and this country's continuing tragedy of gun violence.
Mr. Thompson, a five time cancer survivor himself, devoted enormous energy to funding cancer research.
Over the centuries, men and women have devoted enormous energy to making fake things seem real.
