Sentence examples for devoted to opposing from inspiring English sources

My life has been devoted to opposing that tendency".

Mr Paisley's entire political career has been devoted to opposing any unionist move towards accommodating nationalists, and he has the scalps of previous unionist leaders to prove it.

In about six months in office, Mr. Cruz has devoted himself to opposing everything President Obama wants.

The entire last section, devoted to politics, as opposed to cultural politics, is curiously flat.

Judge Pickering was also questioned by Senator Richard J. Durbin, Democrat of Illinois, about his contact with the Sovereignty Commission, which was devoted to retaining segregation and opposing civil rights organizers.

"Timeless Thomas" is, in fact, almost entirely devoted to a series of opposing pages showing, on the one side, familiar modern technologies under the heading "Present Day" and, under "Edison's Lab" on the other, how Edison made what he did.

VeloNews is the only United States-based magazine devoted to bicycle racing, as opposed to training or equipment.

(Early on, he was affiliated with a poetic movement — called the Movement — devoted to those principles and opposed what its adherents, among them Philip Larkin and Thom Gunn, saw as the heavy, foggy legacies of Romanticism and modernism).

Moreover, even the inspector can’t tell how much TARP money each recipient devoted to bolstering lending as opposed to debt repayment or investments.

This is important for NGOs establishing clinics in countries where volunteers do not speak the language and where resources are limited and devoted to clinical care, as opposed to supporting qualitative research projects with observations, interviews and focus groups.

In the context of such claims about Strauss's influence on the Bush administration's policies on Iraq and the Middle East more generally, there is an irony, namely, that Strauss himself was devoted to revitalizing Islamic philosophy, as opposed to Christian thought, for the very sake of the future of western civilization.