Sentence examples for devoting the first from inspiring English sources

Almost from the start, he used the brand's official communiques as a megaphone, devoting the first and last pages of his catalog to personal notes and op-eds.

Devoting the first half of his Wigmore Hall concert to William Byrd, he nonetheless managed to imply a snapshot history of the instrument from the English Renaissance to the 1970s.

He began on familiar ground, devoting the first half of his program to a pair of Bach Partitas, No. 5 in G (BWV 829) and No. 4 in D (BWV 828).

But Aw's purpose, after devoting the first third of the novel to the vitriolic posthumous account outlined above, is to spend the rest of the book devising a complex, contradictory case for the rehabilitation of Johnny Lim.

In devoting the first third of his address to the economy and domestic issues, he displayed a determination not to be seen as overly absorbed by those crises or inattentive to domestic problems.

This compilation takes aim at that small injustice, devoting the first of its three discs to Dorsey's sideman work with the likes of Paul Whiteman, Ethel Waters and the Boswell Sisters.

I see from the BillOreilly.com that he's devoting the second hour of his radio show today to me and Darfur.

She intended to complete her study of the life of the mind by devoting the third volume to the faculty of judgment, but was not able to do so because of her untimely death in 1975.

Upon being released from prison to an awaiting family and two young teenaged daughters and an adult police officer son, he is actively devoting the third act of his life to reforming the criminal justice system in America.

And The Tribune devoted the first five paragraphs of its lead article to the goof.

I devoted the first day to putting together a 10-foot wooden walkway to it.