Sentence examples for devoted great energy from inspiring English sources

To the undoing of this treaty Louis devoted great energy.

His role is less strategic philosopher than gadfly; he has devoted great energy to attacking undertested weapons, the cronyism of the procurement system and a Pentagon bookkeeping operation that makes Enron seem transparent.

But it is also possible to look with admiration at the image of Romney beaming with grandfatherly pride and simultaneously feel unsettled by his role as the standard-bearer for a party that has devoted great energy to making it more difficult for people who look like his grandson to vote.

Once an underexplored bond, academics have devoted great energy in recent years to assessing the connection between hockey and Canada.

It is that the central aim of British foreign policy for most of the post-1945 period—to which Mr Blair has devoted greater energy and passion than possibly any of his predecessors since Winston Churchill is now in real jeopardy.The prime minister will continue to insist that Britain should be the bridge between Europe and America.

Professor Silliman, a former Air Force lawyer who heads the Center on Law, Ethics and National Security at Duke, said the response of authorities at Abu Ghraib to the Red Cross appeared to be part of a larger pattern in which the administration and the military devote great energy to find ways to avoid the jurisdiction of the Geneva Conventions.

"She's someone who would not hesitate to whisper something like, 'Can you believe how terrible this speech is?' " Ms. Cheney is fiercely loyal to and protective of her father and devotes great energy to matters that relate — directly or indirectly — to the preservation (or repair) of his legacy.

"We will be moving from Culver City to Compton and everywhere in between". Each candidate plans to devote greater energy to communicating their message to young and Latino voters.

Over the past 30 years, economists have devoted great intellectual energy to proving that such disasters cannot happen.

They, and the rest of the coherent citizens of the United States, have seen with their own eyes how the news media devotes great energy and resources to covering attacks by terrorists in Europe and elsewhere with absolutely no motivation to do otherwise.

I found Donohue's language overheated, but I wound up thinking that he had put his finger on an interesting issue: how a newspaper like The Times, which devotes great space and energy to covering the arts, should deal with the frequent collisions between art and religion.