Sentence examples for devoting from inspiring English sources

"[Foundation director] Catalina Escobar has an amazing story of how she got involved with devoting her life to pregnant teens in the slums.

But West Tyrone is the nationalists' greatest hope for a gain - and both Sinn Fein and the SDLP are devoting huge energy and resources to what they see as a crunch contest in a critical election.

Related: Restricted franchise in EU referendum would make a mockery of democracy | Letters My own interest in this matter goes back many years – including devoting my maiden speech in the House of Commons in 2001 to the case for lowering the voting age to 16 across the board.

He broke off your engagement, it's true, but the fact that he has stopped to think so carefully about what marriage entails points to how seriously he takes the possibility of devoting his life to someone.

The security services have been tracking Britons travelling to Syria for several years and, with concern growing, are now devoting more resources to this.

Regulation needs to be flexible and responsive; inflexible regulation makes things worse, not better, and distracts staff from time which they should be devoting to patient care.

The Commonwealth Games fill a hole in the sporting calendar but, when you think about it, the idea of devoting a multi-sport event to the Commonwealth of Nations is more than a little silly.

"We're not devoting a ton of time to this," he said on the phone on 25 June, the day after Ghomeshi's response.

Grade added that Milne never recovered from the summary manner of his dismissal after devoting his professional life to the broadcaster.

For Labour after 2010, that meant either devoting enormous energy to dismantling the coalition narrative – explaining that Labour spending was not always wise, but that it decidedly did not cause the crash or the deficit that followed – or surrendering to it, declaring Labour got it wrong.

Related: Cutting the cord: a look at the pros and cons of quitting cable After devoting far too many hours of my life to studying the economics of various possible bundles applied to a single account – mine – I can only conclude that their complexity and opacity might make them a suitable subject for study by the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau.