Sentence examples for if you devote from inspiring English sources

In essence, you need wealth to be able to fight your rivals, but if you devote too much money to war, your wealth tends to stagnate.

He also believes that if you devote yourself to his admonitions — that is, to the tormenting details of "saving more, spending less, and avoiding getting ripped off" — you can get a handle on your wallet and maybe even your life.

But be honest: if you devote 60, 80 or 100 hours a week to your business, do you really have time to read 100 prospectuses to find 10 good stocks?

You can only furnish your home for free if you devote your entire life to scouring second-hand shops and work for yourself as a seamstress, carpenter and delivery person.

But unless you are careful you are going to have difficulties supporting the victims of oppressive regimes if you devote your energies to find reasons to keep their oppressors in power.

Do not, like the intern recently employed by the director of one human rights organisation I know, send an email on the day you are due to arrive, saying you have decided it is much better for everyone if you devote these months to working on your novel instead.

Admit it: Even if you devoted untold hours to a Tumblr focused on making snarky comments about her wedding registry — or even, say, a blog post that did the same thing — you'd probably tune in to see whether she could handle the challenge.

It would be a terrible waste of time and effort if you devoted yourself to putting a speech together and the audience tuned out or couldn't remember a word you said by the time you were done.

Before leaving I asked my friends: "Oh, if I get detained will you devote your life to freeing me?" It was a joke but then again, you do hear about all these stories.

If you cannot devote a refrigerator to the job, a cold frame will do, or simply bury the boxes in the garden, so that the top of the box is about a foot below the surface.

There are more than 7,100 islands in the Philippines, a nation slightly larger than the state of Arizona, and if you could devote your life to traveling through them asking questions about food, you would discover a different recipe for adobo on each one.