Sentence examples for devoted with from inspiring English sources

This has been achieved by local self-help and without the massive international effort devoted, with such striking lack of success, to restoring governance in Somalia.

But his Wall Street and Washington experience certainly shaped his agenda as a market regulator -- one that was devoted, with considerable success, to protecting and educating the individual investors who had crowded into the market like lemmings over the previous decade.

If Richter was interested in photography primarily as a goad to painting, Becher and his wife Hilla were devoted, with a glacial fixity of purpose, to the art of photography in its documentary essence – a commitment that could be traced back to August Sander and the Neue Sachlichkeit (New Objectivity) in the Weimar republic.

Yet no sooner had I restored my jaw to its rightful position than I found myself accepting, and an instant later my office was empty save for a few speed lines, as in a comic strip: I'd high-tailed it to the library in order to begin remediating my embarrassing literary gap, a cause to which I devoted — with a kind of mounting, marveling pleasure — much of this past summer.

Lots of attention has been devoted, with good reason, to such horrors as genocide in Darfur.

In order to realize the exceptional properties promised by III-V nanowires, the precise control over the morphologies and structures of the nanowires is the key, which has been devoted with much effort by tuning the growth parameters [7 9].

Both her parents are devoted atheists with a glancing sociological interest in – but little reverence for – organised religion.

"It would not surprise me if the overwhelming majority of the survivors devoted themselves with a somewhat fanatic intensity to the task of rebuilding what was destroyed".

Hayek has devoted herself with extreme focus to what amounts to several careers: Mexican soap star, Hollywood movie star, producer, Oscar nominee, red-carpet glamazon, outspoken activist.

The Sami were devoted parents with strong emotions and traditions attached to their children, and had developed customs for reducing risk during pregnancy, delivery, and child care.

Saints had roles in virtually every walk of life, including: Occupations and activities: All saints had devoted relationships with God and the Church, but not all were clergy.