Sentence examples for devoted the latter from inspiring English sources

Leonard Knight may have mis-spent the first half of his life in the indulgent manner of many Californian baby-boomers, but he has devoted the latter half to recycling of a Biblical kind – creating a Holy Land close to the state's Dead Sea.

My choice would be the classical Greek historian Thucydides, who devoted the latter part of his life to a book detailing the history of the long series of wars between Athens and Sparta in the fifth century B.C. His book is considered to have laid the foundations of the discipline of history.

In Lonely Planet's 224-page Dubai & Abu Dhabi guide, only seven pages are devoted to the latter.

Zeigler runs the International Rice Research Institute, which is devoted to the latter course, employing science to expand the size of harvests.

According to one who has done the job, a nuncio's time is mostly devoted to the latter role, and particularly to the selection of bishops.

And while we might be all too familiar with things like wit and snark (David Denby, a New Yorker film critic, just published an entire book devoted to the latter), what about "afterwit"?

Three whole chapters (13 15) are devoted to the latter one.

Special attention is devoted to the latter case, which is favored for large doorway heights and when the zone that initially contains the dense fluid is comparatively small in volume.

More space should be devoted to the latter.

The graduates in medicine are the peers of the legal profession, as well educated, as sound in judgment, as self sacrificing and as devoted as the latter.

It was the abolition movement, however, to which Tappan devoted himself during the latter part of his life.