A political settlement is not one part of a multipronged strategy in a counterinsurgency; it is the overarching framework within which everything else fits and in the service of which everything else operates.
Everywhere you turned, it was helpful advice and more than a dash of sanctimony — in the service of raising everything from gourds to goats.
"The scales fell from my eyes and I no longer saw him as the hero who could do no wrong but as a man who was willing to sacrifice almost everything in the service of his enormous ambition," he wrote.
"I no longer saw him as the hero who could do no wrong but as a man who was willing to sacrifice almost everything in the service of his enormous ambition".
Here, everything is harnessed in the service of one overriding concept.
Just as a novitiate nun taking her vows, during this sacred religious rite I made covenants to obey the commandments and to offer everything I am in the service of God.
But he is as meticulous an actor as he is a singer, and everything he does is in the service of his material.
Almost everything Moreno has done has been in the service of winning over fans and, as he says, "putting butts in seats".
Mario Vargas Llosa says becoming a novelist is like swallowing a tapeworm; everything you eat, read, see or do is in the service of the hungry tapeworm.
My Days in the service of Mary".
