Sentence examples for devoted to erecting from inspiring English sources

To date, conservative political activity has been chiefly devoted to erecting a strong restraining influence against liberal measures.

The city has rejected a similar gift from followers of Summum, who want to erect a monument devoted to the "Seven Aphorisms" of their faith.

As a minister, he was devoted to good works, helping parishioners erect a do-it-yourself church in the dead of winter and tending to the elderly and infirm.

Of all the studios, Paramount seems most likely to understand the opportunity here; they distributed Paranormal Activity and have since erected a new division, Insurge, devoted to developing and releasing low-budget films (they distributed The Devil Inside).

Until we understand that value, we will not know why we ought to construct such a concept as the aesthetic, still less why we should erect a whole branch of philosophy devoted to its study.

Much attention has already been devoted to the administration's malignant torture and surveillance policies, erected on the wobbly foundation of a monarchical view of the presidency by the likes of Addington and John Yoo, a deputy assistant attorney general.

During the period 1815 48, the Austrian statesman Prince Metternich, a major influence in Austria and in Europe generally, devoted his energies to erecting an antirevolutionary chain of international alliances throughout Europe.

Always devoted to family.

He remained devoted to her.

All of that increase is being devoted to building up the three high-growth businesses erecting cell phone towers, stringing new fiber networks and upgrading phone lines to carry high-speed data.

funds specifically devoted to junk.