The phrase "effort devoted" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it to refer to the amount of effort someone puts into undertaking a task. For example, "The effort devoted to the project was evident in the high-quality results."
The scale of the effort devoted to this can be mind-boggling.
If, like us, you want more effort devoted to stopping domestic abuse, where should that come from?
The White House initially objected, saying effort devoted to the inquiry could detract from the fight against terror.
For the past four years, we've been in reverse when it comes to the effort devoted to the protection and restoration of nature.
This has been achieved by local self-help and without the massive international effort devoted, with such striking lack of success, to restoring governance in Somalia.
Consider the effort devoted to convincing people that Tony Blair (keen European) and Gordon Brown (decidedly less keen) are in total agreement equally avid pro-Europeans, equally eager to rise to the euro challenge when the conditions are right.
The economists Bengt Holmstrom and Paul Milgrom describe the general problem of misaligned incentives in more formal terms – workers who are rewarded only for accomplishment of easily measurable tasks reduce the effort devoted to other tasks.
But, from a different perspective, it is football's complexity and secrecy that seem wasteful: all that intelligence and effort devoted to delicate, multivariable contingency plans that the vast majority of fans will never notice, let alone decipher.
With so little effort devoted to the promotion of a sound curriculum, voucher schools, like those established in Milwaukee, turned out to offer few if any gains for those who attended them.
The reason I am providing these details is that they illustrate the amount of time and effort devoted to counter-terrorism in government, and they show how many organisations need to be involved to deal with such a complex threat.
Someone giving the strictest of reading to the Dartmouth doctrine might argue that, given the outcome, the effort devoted to the Klidaras case was a futile expenditure of time and money.
