Williams devoted much energy in retirement to helping asylum seekers.
In modern times the Shvetambara and Digambara communities in India have devoted much energy to preserving temples and publishing their religious texts.
Concurrently, he devoted much energy to improving his small army's command structure, appointing civil administrators, and formulating and enforcing procedures of taxation, law enforcement, and litigation.
The Philharmonic never devoted much energy in the early years to scouting for a successor, and by the late years, it was too late.
The most likely reason was his reluctance to devote much energy to his private life "so as to prevent his personal concerns from limiting his political latitude".
After the Soviet Union collapsed, in late 1991, the government of the new Russian federation devoted much energy to holding elections and setting up political parties.
Waugh devoted much energy to his beloved magazine, bullying all his friends to write for tiny fees, and he established an annual party for the magazine's Bad Sex Award, a back-handed prize for novels with excruciating sexual descriptions.
Recognizing that Telefonica lacks the size and revenue to compete in Europe, he has devoted much energy to expansion in Latin America -- which, as he sees it, has the added bonus of being a back door to North America.
Nathan Söderblom, a Swedish archbishop who devoted much energy to problems of classification, accepted the division of higher religions into two great groups but used a varied terminology that pointed to some of the characteristics of the two types of religion.
Of all the candidates, Mr. Bloomberg had by far the most dire outlook on the city's economy, taking note of a series of signs -- declines on Wall Street, a drop in tourism -- that he said signaled that the next mayor would have to devote much energy to dealing with the budget.
