'devotes' is a correct and usable word in written English.
It is a verb that means to dedicate or commit oneself to a particular activity or course of action. Example sentence: He devotes himself to helping those in need.
The Water Stealer (Faber), published in the year he turns 60, is only Riordan's fourth full-length collection – this is a poet who refuses to over-publish – and the care and dedication he devotes to his craft pay off here.
As you may already know, Media Lens, founded in 2001 by a couple of bright and determined young graduates, devotes most of its energy to criticism of the liberal wing of the mainstream media – the Indy and the Observer, the BBC and Channel 4, as well as the Graun.
[Mackay only devotes about 7 pages to the tulip mania but his account informs most contemporary perceptions of the event]Thompson, E. A. (2007).
A rich entrepreneur, he now devotes much of his time to a non-profit environmental outfit.
Putting in a simple timeline, for instance, would have been more useful than the introduction, which devotes many pages to detailing what will be said in the rest of the book.
The millennium bug, after all, is just a bug, and squashing bugs is something IT departments do every day.Jim Bottome, IT director of British-American Tobacco, likens the millennium fix to another sort of major IT job switching from a mainframe computer to "client-server" PC software and says he devotes just a few days a month to overseeing the job.
The WHO has an influenza budget of $7.7m, less than a third of what the city of New York devotes to public-health emergencies.
(Unlike the old edition, this new one devotes an entire volume to the index).
Sir Nicholas devotes a large chunk of his report to explaining how market mechanisms can help to accommodate both the developing world's desire for self-enrichment, and its need to avert serious climate change.The Clean Development Mechanism, set up under the Kyoto protocol, permits companies in rich countries to buy emissions credits from companies in poor countries.
But this book devotes only three of its 12 chapters to his presidency.
Since today's EU devotes 80% of its budget to aiding farmers or poor regions, simply extending its current policies eastwards would cost existing members huge sums.This week the European Commission unveiled its first detailed plan to solve this difficulty.
