As a teen-ager, McKellen had had a strained relationship with Gladys; in adulthood, he had grown devoted to her, the oldest witness to his life.
Milijas, who grew up devoted to the club, had a positive record against Partizan.
Around the detained immigrants a great city grew up, devoted to life and death.
Since 2012, her weekly advice column, New York magazine's Ask Polly, has broadcast these beliefs in human potential through letters tackling modernity's most pressing existential crises for a growing and devoted following.
A barbershop called E Place, owned by an Uzbek immigrant named Eric Dzhuray, caters to Trinidadians and Guyanese — who make up a considerable share of the community in South Ozone Park — and at least one young white suburbanite who had grown so devoted to the shop when he lived in neighboring Howard Beach that he continued his patronage even though he had married and moved to Long Island.
It could make an even bigger splash if it bids in the coming months for the rights to broadcast England's Premier League in the United States, where the league has a growing and devoted following, as well as Major League Soccer, whose broadcast rights expire in 2014.
Ms. Stone, 33, is not a doctor, nurse, doula or midwife: she is a birth photographer, part of a small but growing profession devoted to chronicling a rite of passage that is no less significant than a wedding — though a bit trickier to capture on film.
Gennaro Castaldo of the BPI, which represents the UK record industry, said: "The very act of dying tragically young or with great potential that goes unfulfilled can confer a powerful iconic status on an artist, particularly if they already had a growing and devoted cult following around the world".
Mr. Irving had sued Penguin Books and Deborah Lipstadt, an American historian, over passages in a 1993 book that described him as a dangerous spokesman for a growing movement devoted to the argument that there was no large-scale Nazi program to exterminate Europe's Jews.
With a food crisis, does it make sense to be using arable land to grow crops devoted to fuel alternatives instead of food?
Browne is sitting on top of a loose organization that most brand managers would kill for: a growing and devoted following of educated women with money to spend.
