Sentence examples for first to devote from inspiring English sources

Duffy is not the first to devote her artistic talents to mourning the demise of the gas meters.

"TERMINATOR SALVATION," the fourth and latest film in the "Terminator" franchise, is the first to devote much of its screen time to a landscape in ruins.

A satellite-TV channel casting itself as the nation's first to devote itself to redness is moving from daily to weekly programming of "red songs", and is reintroducing advertising.

The hospital was the country's first to devote itself exclusively to the care of cancer patients, and every effort was made to build a state-of-the-art facility equal to the task.

The mission was the sixth to land on the Moon but arguably the first to devote a significant amount of time to scientific research.

The attempt to provide such a theory got properly underway in 1738 when Christian Wolff's textbook on psychology was the first to devote a whole chapter to the topic of attention (see Hatfield, 1995, for an excellent discussion).

Wilkinson rationalised thus: "I deliberately sacrificed my First ... to devote my spare time to a strike raging in Manchester".

But he was the first composer to devote a career to exploring the expressivity of space.

This one, published this month, is the first to be devoted to restaurants at the New Jersey Shore.

She had no time – no second of time to devote to the past.

This appears to be the first study devoted to this problem to appear in the literature.