Sentence examples for devoted to eradicating from inspiring English sources

And others wondered whether it would be too unwieldy to have a department with 22 agencies devoted to eradicating both Al Qaeda and boll weevils.

Ron Reagan argues that, while today Hamas is a terrorist organization devoted to eradicating Israel, Hamas thinks the same thing in reverse about Israel... and that at some point Netanyahu has to work harder with Abbas for a two-state solution to avoid endless wars generating new generations of Arabs seeking revenge.

He later led the division of the World Health Organization devoted to eradicating H.I.V./AIDS, where he headed an initiative to provide three million people living with the disease with antiretroviral treatment.

During these scandals, Voltaire fought vigorously alongside the project's editors to defend the work, fusing the Encyclopédie's enemies, particularly the Parisian Jesuits who edited the monthly periodical the Journal de Trevoux, into a monolithic "infamy" devoted to eradicating truth and light from the world.

We lavish some $48 billion annually on our pets and another $2 billion on animal protection and conservation causes; but that index of affection pales like so much well-cooked pork against the $300 billion we spend on meat and hunting, and the tens of billions devoted to removing or eradicating animals we consider pests.

A noted Aids and LGBT activist, Gaga has recently devoted efforts to eradicating bullying, claiming she was picked on for being different as a child  – although fellow former pupils have described her as a friendly, suburban student who had no problem fitting in.

A large proportion of software engineering research has been devoted to consistency maintenance, or geared towards eradicating inconsistencies as soon as they are detected.

Helmand produces more than half of Afghanistan's opium harvest, with 22 percent of its arable land devoted to poppies, even after Governor Mangal's forces eradicated a third of the crop last year.

For example, there are very different long-term impacts on science between a private investment in an institution devoted to basic research and a private investment targeted to globally eradicating a disease, although both are worthy endeavors.

For this reason, HIV-related research efforts are increasingly being devoted to understanding the nature of this latent virus reservoir and how to eradicate it.

MICHELMAN--Stanley Brent, 67, a well-known adoption attorney who devoted his life to eradicating the devastating effects of childhood genetic diseases, died May 7, 2009 in Ft. Lee, New Jersey.