Sentence examples for devoted himself to building from inspiring English sources

In the early 1990s, I-Roy devoted himself to building a recording studio in Spanish Town.

He then devoted himself to building alliances between the intelligentsia of the left and the fledgling Polish labor movement.

During this time, Rome drifted toward chaos as Nero devoted himself to building ever more opulent palaces and competing in the classical version of the Eurovision contest.

In the late fifties and early sixties, he devoted himself to building up the church's capacities for what he calls "saturation evangelism".

Turning over all government administration to his son, Kiyomori devoted himself to building a new army, but he died before the task could be accomplished.

By his release, he had obtained his degree in accounting, had married and, after release, he devoted himself to building a family.

Ever the risk-taker, Lars decided to leave his job and devote himself to building up the company.

Kevin Kline is George, the doomed fellow, who devotes himself to building the house he has always dreamed of, on a golden cliff in Southern California.

Then, in 1952, Hendry quit table tennis — like most serious players, he hated the name Ping-Pong — to devote himself to building an accounting business in his native St . Louis

Glanville's headline pledge was to devote himself to "building a Hackney that works for everyone", expressing an appreciation in the Town Hall that the benefits of the borough's growing economic prosperity aren't being shared widely enough.

Concerned for his fitness, in his spare time he devoted himself to exercise, building his strength to the point where he was able to easily carry five hundredweight (560 lb; 250 kg).