Sentence examples for devoted to hard work from inspiring English sources

Notorious for his shyness in public, he was devoted to hard work – rising early and painting people who were often expected to pose for months, even years.

In contrast to his four years of social life at Yale, Cushing's next four years at Harvard Medical School were devoted to hard work.

What emerges is the slow and steady pace of a rural, tightly knit religious community that has shunned the modern world and its discontents, of a people devoted to hard work and prayer.

In 1913, Carl Camp wrote 'It would seem that paralysis agitans affected mostly those persons whose lives had been devoted to hard work … The people who take their work to bed with them and who never come under the inhibiting influences of tobacco or alcohol are the kind that are most frequently affected.

Hogarth's years of apprenticeship were by no means devoted exclusively to hard work, however.

Esther Gordy Edwards, who has died aged 91, had set up a company that lent money to family members and she was not convinced that Berry, who had written a couple of hit songs and tried his hand at prizefighting and pimping, but never lasted long in a proper job, possessed the necessary business sense or, more importantly, would be capable of devoting himself to hard work.

He said: We need to continue to devote hard work and determined efforts to halting the spread of HIV, malaria and other infectious diseases.

"We need to continue to devote hard work and determined efforts to halting the spread of HIV, malaria and other infectious diseases," said Niebel.

This indifferentism is hard to reconcile with the effort and the artistry that Pessoa devoted to his work.

Doris was also devoted to her work.

He was devoted to his work".