Sentence examples for devoting a considerable amount from inspiring English sources

The rock dust and overflowing ashtrays on the porch suggested that he had been devoting a considerable amount of time to grinding stone lately.

Mr. Pitt, an occasional resident — who, granted, has used his celebrity to the city's benefit by devoting a considerable amount of time and energy here as part of his Make It Right organization — has laughed the whole thing off.

But this will be a topic that we'll devote a considerable amount of time to later in the course.

Your memoir devotes a considerable amount of attention to the years 1940 and 1941, and to the quarrel over whether the United States ought to intervene in Europe against Hitler.

Barack Obama has devoted a considerable amount of his time to revamping counterterrorism policies, rebalancing attention to the Pacific Rim, prosecuting a war in Libya — and killing Osama bin Laden.

Mr. Patterson and Mr. Lofton also devote a considerable amount of screen time to Ms. Richards's bruising and ultimately failed 1994 re-election campaign against George W. Bush.

And Mr. Dimon and the board had to devote a considerable amount of time to preserving his titles rather than running America's largest bank by assets.

In the early 1990s the artist David Hockney devoted a considerable amount of paint and canvas to two familiar, humble subjects — his dachshunds, Stanley and Boodgie — and he was clear that he didn't care what anyone thought about it.

It is also an endless source of fascination for my 1 1/2-year-old son, and I devote a considerable amount of energy to keeping it out of his tiny hands.

Later, there would be the New Orleans Suite, Afro-Eurasian Eclipse, the Far East Suite, the Latin American Suite and the music for the sacred concerts to which he devoted a considerable amount of energy in the years before his death in 1974, at the age of 75.

In recent years, a growing number of businesses – and particularly HR leaders – have devoted a considerable amount of attention to the concept of "unconscious bias". This includes some of the most successful organizations in the world.