Sentence examples for ended up devoting from inspiring English sources
Dr. Gorbach ended up devoting much of his career to tracking down the cause of that outbreak and pursuing treatments.
I ended up devoting a year and thousands of dollars to getting such help, from therapists and honest friends.
Mr. Mullen joined the firm as a lawyer but ended up devoting most of his time to its business operations.
He ended up devoting the next 10 years to going through hundreds of thousands of papers, film stills and scripts, and interviewing 150 people, before publishing his 580-page "Goldwyn: A Biography".
His first effort, the $787 billion stimulus package, ended up devoting only a small part of the money to public works, and many stimulus projects were selected more because they were "shovel ready" and could get people working relatively quickly than because they were particularly transformative.
Though Vogel sometimes fills in for Spinney when there are scenes the veteran would rather not work on (he's not a fan of green screen work, for instance), the young puppeteer has ended up devoting more of his time toward directing episodes of the show than covering for his mentor.
It seems because minority communities tend to be poorer, they end up devoting more of their resources to conspicuous consumption.
But, because most companies are set up to focus on the first sale rather than on all the ones that might follow, they end up devoting all their energies to courting us, promising wonderful products and excellent service.
In practice, that means that you end up devoting, say, £60 a month to drinking out, and not spending more once it runs out – even if you have £30 left in your clothes budget.
And ultimately, they said, caseworkers end up devoting so much time to filling out papers and plugging data into computer systems they have not mastered that they are left with little time to help families in crisis.
Ms Rousseff boasts six times as much TV time as Ms Silva before the first round (the balance is much fairer in a second round) and may end up devoting as much as 15% of it to laying into her rival.The ads have been brazen.
