Sentence examples for devoted the last year from inspiring English sources

Sir John Eliot Gardiner has devoted the last year to performing all 198 of Bach's surviving sacred cantatas at churches around the world, performing them on (or near) the days in the liturgical calendar for which Bach composed them.

Dismayed but not vanquished by Franco's triumph in early 1939, Goldman moved to Canada, where she devoted the last year of her life to securing political asylum and financial support for the women and children refugees of the Spanish war and to publicizing legislative dangers to free speech in Canada.

Kato had devoted the last year of his life to trying to defeat Uganda's controversial anti-homosexuality act, which proposed to broaden the criminalisation of same-sex relations in Uganda, making it punishable by life imprisonment and in some cases, death.

People's Kitchen Collective, a group in Oakland, California, has devoted the last year to a series called "From the Farm to the Kitchen to the Table to the Streets," working specifically to redefine what farm-to-table can mean.

Ms. Stuart has devoted the last decade to the adoration of manhole covers.

Ori is the world's leading expert in augmented reality and has devoted the past 10 years to fostering the AR ecosystem.

Mr. Robertson devoted the second half of the program to an unusually gentle, dreamlike account of Stravinsky's complete "Firebird" ballet score.

The sultan devoted the last decade of his reign to consolidating his hold over the territories in his possession.

When his uncle died in 1965 and the shop closed, Mr. Sonnenschein devoted the next four years to learning the business.

Hamilton devoted the last 22 years of his life to the development of the theory of quaternions and related systems.

He has devoted the last three years to preparing for this America's Cup challenge, and has focused on little else.