Sentence examples similar to devotion to a purpose from inspiring English sources

Laud, as he himself was well aware, failed; but his devotion to a coherent purpose and his repudiation of hypocrisy, compromise, and corruption in allies and enemies of whatever class were rare and admirable qualities.

As devotion to a recreational activity increases with specialization, recreationists' ecological understanding (i.e., mental models) of the resource system is also expected to change.

It also gave her purpose an active devotion to a deep and crucial hope.

David's devotion to a mitzvah saved his life.

"Life is devotion to an idea".

"A devotion to an absence".

Both a devotion to the underlying purpose of the Lands Act's absorption of state law and a weighing of the equities requires nonretroactive application of the state statute of limitations here.

This function was served, with astonishing devotion to the purpose of the Bill of Rights, by the Warren Court for 15 years.

She is credited to have attained sainthood exclusively on the basis of her intense devotion to Vithoba, a devotion reflected in her abhangas.

Mr. Critchley is listed as head philosopher of the International Necronautical Society, an avant-garde group whose Web page (necronauts.org) says its central tenet is "inauthenticity" and its purpose is devotion to the study of death, a "space which we intend to map, colonize and eventually inhabit".

But why the broad devotion to so specialized a scholar?