Very few ideas have got to the stage where we felt we could devote such a large team and financial resources to the development".
It was understandable that the British, with no other means of striking back at Germany in the early stages of the war, were prepared to devote such a huge effort to making bombing a success.
The Labour leader also said that the party's defence review would assess whether it was right to devote such a large part of the defence budget to the Trident replacement.
Blue whales need that extra energy because they devote such a small proportion of their lives to feeding, says Ann Pabst, a functional morphologist at the University of North Carolina, Wilmington, who was not involved with the study.
He says in retrospect he was really too young to write the book but knew that only at that age would he devote such a period of time to such a project.
"This proves we were right to devote such an effort to shed light on this accident".
So what was I doing devoting such a big chunk of my life trying to make that "deeply flawed" law work?
Devoting such a large number of troops to pillaging oilfields and protecting oil pipelines and transportation routes would require a more permanent presence in Iraq and far more troops than the United States has available.
It was in that same vein that he had devoted such attention to pensions.
But few books can have devoted such detailed attention to their events, and found such exquisite pleasure there.
