Sentence examples for devoted himself to doing from inspiring English sources

Since the day he was first sworn in as President, in February, 1999, he devoted himself to doing precisely that.

"My father devoted himself to doing what he could to enable his family, his friends and others to come back and live again," said his son David.

As Bill Clinton's vice president, he devoted himself to raising money and doing political favors -- and collecting i.o.u.'s from local and state politicians across the country.

Gandhi was painfully aware of the see-saws of history, and devoted himself to find ways to win that didn't simply set up the next the loss -- but rather gained permanent, irreversible ground.

But with the means to do so, he devoted himself to collecting and put the building to another use.

He could easily have walked away but didn't, and instead devoted himself to succeeding.

Thoreau's thought him crazy going to Walden, as did colleagues when Carl Jung devoted himself to building his retreat place away from the noise of city.

While Mr. Ledner had workers do the heavy lifting, he devoted himself to salvaging and reconfiguring the offbeat details that give the house much of its character.

Mazarin's resolution to devote himself to Richelieu did not prevent him from also obtaining the patronage of Cardinal Barberini, the youngest nephew of Pope Urban VIII.

I ignored him through oppositional behavior, later reasoning that only an idiot sets out to find the poorhouse, not to mention devote himself to something he doesn't love.

Burnt out by too many long nights fueled by drugs and alarmed watching one after another of his friends die from a mysterious disease, he made a conscious choice to drop out of the club scene, devoting himself to getting clean and doing what he could to fight the epidemic.