Sentence examples for devoted to becoming from inspiring English sources

2.55am BST Barry O'Farrell's whole career has been devoted to becoming premier.

As a teenager Peter Shilton was so devoted to becoming a professional he used to hang for hours on end from the banisters of his parents' grocery shop, trying desperately to stretch his 6ft frame an inch or two.

Ryley was 15 and devoted to becoming the starting nose guard on his varsity football team.

With spaces devoted to hedonism becoming rarer and rarer, the radio and possibly more importantly, the radio station— takes on more importance than ever.

She stars in the Broadway premiere of Margaret Edson's Pulitzer Prize-winning 1995 drama about a poetry professor undergoing experimental treatment for ovarian cancer as she contemplates the irony of a life devoted to scholarship ultimately becoming fodder for someone else's research.

Weakened by 18 months of chemotherapy, Ms. Fialko devoted herself to becoming healthy, with organic food and alternative treatments.

In your introduction to the collection, you talk about how you took a year and devoted yourself to becoming "semi-literate".

Glass, steel and wood, jutting out in vaguely nautical fashion to provide public views, it was also a rare new building for culture in a city which had otherwise devoted itself to becoming a giant out-of-town mall for Hampshire suburbia.

How long have the other guys devoted themselves to becoming physical freaks?

Deeply religious people often have an advantage, not because of their beliefs, but because they have often thought more carefully about death and devoted time to becoming loving and forgiving persons.

A year out of high school, Thompson married and entered the Army in 1956, becoming devoted to the military and rising from the ranks to become an officer.