Sentence examples for devoted to building up from inspiring English sources
Its recent expansion was devoted to building up its interactive science exhibitions, including a theater.
It is moving nuclear regulation from the industry ministry, where civil servants were devoted to building up the industry, to the environment ministry.
After Burma fell to the Japanese, a controversy developed over whether the principal Chinese and U.S. effort against Japan should be devoted to building up U.S. air power based in China or to reform of the Chinese army and its training and equipment for a combat role.
Many pages toward the end are devoted to building up Wendell Willkie — a man risen from the world of business, like Hoover (and like him called a "wonder boy") — as a sympathetic, charismatic anti-Roosevelt, but it all comes to anticlimax with Roosevelt's easy electoral victory, for an unprecedented third term, in 1940.
For the past decade, she has been devoted to building up the Tate's international collections of modern and contemporary art, and has also been the curator of, during the past decade, a trio of important exhibitions of women artists: Louise Bourgeois, Yayoi Kusama and Agnes Martin.
Many people were rightfully upset that a 60-second commercial devoted to building up young girls' self-esteem caused such a loud and hateful uproar.
Following in the mold of Joan Rivers and Kathy Griffin, Ms. Handler specializes in biting the hand that feeds: tearing down celebrities on a channel devoted to building them up.
The new organization, devoted to building low- and moderate- income housing, has already set up a council of 50 homeowners.
Two components, making up the lion's share of the allocated funds, are devoted to building infrastructure for broadband Internet connection.
