It said it was devoting "all its energies and efforts" to tackling the spill, and had released 110,000 euros ($150,000) so far to help with the clean-up.
Wouldn't it be better not to waste time trying, and to devote all our efforts to research to find a cure for cancer instead?" When this question is put to Dr. Hueper, he replies with the thoughtfulness of one who has pondered it long.
Having someone else devote all that effort to immortalize you is highly gratifying".
Al-Nāṣir's internal situation was already almost assured; the last bulwarks of resistance were not long in capitulating (Toledo, 933), and thereafter he was able to devote all his efforts to foreign affairs.
He says he'd rather devote all that time and effort to his business.
Opinion leaders, being committed to the greater good, devote all their efforts to shape tomorrow's society and politics with a good dose of technological help.
Selling the marketing rights for his clock, Hammond quit his job and devoted all his efforts to experimentation.
For a short while it seemed that all the country's leaders would close ranks and devote all their efforts to internal reforms.
"Now, we hope that the president will have more interest in issues inside Korea rather than those outside and devote all his efforts to improving the quality of life for the people," said Kwon Chul Hyon, a party spokesman.
I obtained a post as a lecturer in EST at the "Fachsprachenzentrum", the Centre for Languages for Academic/Specific Purposes, of the University of Hanover, Germany, in 1990, and here I devoted all my efforts to building up a substantial EST programme.
Regulators still remember the repercussions of the failure of Lehman Brothers, and would devote all their efforts to ensuring that another large U.S. bank does not suddenly go bankrupt, said Gregory Daco, principal U.S. economist at IHS Global Insight.
