Sentence examples for earlier devoted from inspiring English sources

Billington brought the same sort of zeal to philosophy that he had earlier devoted to Christianity, and then to rejecting it.

The idea, for instance, that it was the Victorians who invented the notion that overseas initiatives should be for God not gain would have astounded those French, Portuguese and Spanish Catholic Fathers who had earlier devoted far more care to the indigenous peoples of the Americas than many of their Anglo, Protestant competitors.

Although appreciable development work was earlier devoted towards production of all plastic solar collectors, the polymer absorber still remains the most crucial part of the polymer collector design, since severe limitations are imposed by the low thermal conductivity of polymers.

Although Buysse, like the sons of most wealthy Flemings, received a French education, he early devoted himself to writing primarily in Flemish.

Four years earlier, John McCain devoted his concession speech to praise for his opponent.

(In an earlier display devoted to the Siberian expedition, the artifacts were provided, we were told, courtesy of the Novosibirsk Museum of Ethnographic Studies).

As in earlier volumes devoted to Bach, Debussy, Villa-Lobos and others, the program mixes compositions by Berg with works dedicated to him or inspired by his music.

Like the previous film night earlier last week, devoted to music from Alfred Hitchcock movies, this event packed the hall with exactly the demographic of younger, diverse people American orchestras are trying to reach.

One of the pleasures of The Secret Life of 6 Year Olds (as with the earlier programmes devoted to the previous two year groups) is that it features groups of children interacting with one another unencumbered by screens of any kind.

After an early life devoted to alcohol, Platt Rogers Spencer, born in 1810, discovered the vice of temperance.

Mr. Curatolo wags his head ferociously in the early sequences, devoted to the historic first appearance on "The Ed Sullivan Show" and the 1965 concert at Shea Stadium.