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Mr. Edwards went to New Hampshire as his campaign sought to deal with the concern that he might be perceived as a one-state candidate — Mr. Edwards has devoted the vast majority of his resources to winning Iowa — and therefore that a vote for him in Iowa might be wasted.

He has devoted the vast majority of his time to fulfilling his progressive agenda and far less to managing the city.

Bob Dylan has devoted the vast majority of his 55-year recording career to songs of his own, but occasionally he has displayed his ability as a vocal stylist, interpreting folk, country, blues, gospel and pop songs that most inspired him.

The Rev Geoff Reid Bradford · On the day that 90 people are killed in a car bomb in Iraq, the news media devote the vast majority of their time and resources to the long-anticipated resignation of a man whose job is essentially to whisper in the prime minister's ear and feed information to the media.

I also reported American concerns about the level of military resources Britain was devoting to the vast task of stabilising Afghanistan's most dangerous province.

Throughout the 1990s, Israel and the United States devoted vast resources to weakening the nuclear links between Russia and Iran and applied enormous diplomatic pressure on Russia to cut off the relationship.

The Tate is in part a temple to vanity, the vanity of a culture that equates spectacle with substance, with half the building devoted to a vast entranceway, the museum's deeply gloomy signature space -- and with an installation that is occasionally eccentric to the point of distraction.

The state has devoted vast resources to ending the sport, but with only one misdemeanor conviction thus far, it continues unabated in hidden venues, cockfighters and law enforcement officials say.

Unions in Wisconsin and across the country devoted vast resources in an attempt to remove Mr. Walker from office, saying the Republican governor's moves to roll back collective bargaining rights for public employees were an assault on middle-class values and were being bankrolled by a handful of wealthy business owners and corporations.

Throughout his lifetime, he devoted his vast energy to Israel, Soviet Jewry, and to ways of insuring Jewish continuity.

After decades of turning out embarrassingly uncompetitive small cars like the Chevy Vega and Ford Pinto that rarely contributed to their bottom lines, G.M. and Ford have devoted their vast global resources to producing new models that are both fuel-conscious and laden with technology and attractive features.