Sentence examples for goal of devoting from inspiring English sources

"I didn't start out with the goal of devoting all of myself to my job.

The Obama administration has set a goal of devoting more than 3percentt of gross domestic product to research.

In designing the Mini, Sir Alec Issigonis achieved his goal of devoting 80percentt of the car's space to passengers and just 20percenttoto mechanical components.

Of all 27 member nations, only Finland and Sweden have so far met the goal of devoting 3percentt of gross domestic product to research and development for the 21st century.

A clash over development was defused Tuesday when the United States withdrew an earlier demand to eliminate all mention of the so-called millennium development goals and compromised on language covering the Kyoto Protocols on climate change and the goal of devoting 0.7percentt of gross national product to development aid.

"China's next 5-year plan sets a goal of devoting 2% of GDP to research.

Last year, Verizon went further by establishing a new supply chain goal to devote 40% of supplier spending by 2015 to firms that measure and set targets to reduce carbon emissions.

A10 World Briefing A14 NATIONAL A20-28 DemocrAct Actoto Reassure Liberals Skeptical of Goals The Democratic Party devoted much of its convention day to reassuring its liberal base, which has grumbled about the centrist tone of the ticket and platform.

His goal is to devote all of AOL's energy into building its free Web-based services.

In 2009, Johns Hopkins established the Institute for Excellence in Education, which offers a number of teaching awards and is pursuing the seemingly modest goal of tracking how much time physicians devote to teaching.

In Japan, the official broadcaster NHK singled out its national, Shinji Okazaki for praise: "He worked tirelessly in front of the goal, and was devoted to protecting his defence," it wrote.