Sentence examples for devoted to combatting from inspiring English sources

On April 29th, the President of Kenya, Uhuru Kenyatta, addressed the inaugural meeting of the Giants Club Summit, a conference held near Mount Kenya that is devoted to combatting the accelerated destruction of Africa's elephants.

You can also join efforts with one of the many excellent international organizations devoted to combatting honor violence, including the AHA Foundation, UN Women, The Global Fund for Women, Futures Without Violence or your local women's shelter.

He had joined the New York office in the fall of 1997, and his talents were quickly spotted by John O'Neill, the head of the F.B.I.'s National Security Division, which is devoted to combatting terrorism.

Despite the response - and a hefty amount of foreign aid devoted to combatting cocaine production - Peruvian coke is being consumed in the nightclubs of Lima and in cities around the world like never before.

We discovered that despite the government's response and a hefty amount of foreign aid devoted to combatting cocaine production Peruvian coke is being consumed around the world like never before, and the Andean nation runs the risk of becoming the world's next great narco-state.

(One gallery, devoted to combat art, is sponsored by Arthur Ochs Sulzberger, the chairman emeritus of the New York Times Company).

"Denise Rich feels it entirely appropriate that her former husband supports the G & P foundation, an organization devoted to the memory of their deceased daughter, Gabrielle, and devoted to combat the cancer that took her life".

The great Roman amphitheatres called circuses after the Latin word for "circle"—were most often devoted to gladiatorial combats, chariot races, the slaughter of animals, mock battles, and other blood sports.

Its front page today was devoted to a new plan to combat poverty in troubled multi-racial suburbs.

Like so many comic-book movies, "Green Lantern" and "X-Men: First Class" are devoted to the flimsy monumental — combats between good and evil so obvious and repetitive that they are of no interest morally (they're more like premises for endless warfare).

Dear Editor, Despite tremendous effort devoted to the development of antiretroviral therapies to combat HIV over the past decades, AIDS remains one of the most important global infectious diseases.