Sentence examples for instead of devoting from inspiring English sources

But, instead of devoting a few months to the project, as he had planned, he spent four years on it — a terrible distraction from filmmaking.

He added that when Texas had the largest budget surpluses, "instead of devoting resources to improving the colonias, he made his priority a tax cut for wealthy interests".

Instead of devoting himself to the fine points of torts or contracts, he teaches the school's first ever course in animal rights law.

Instead of devoting a third of the page to criticizing the magazine's founders for choosing such a "screaming" title, she could have asked about the magazine's history, subject matter and audience.

I'm not talking about the first years of analysis when you're hard at work discovering your own craziness so that you can get some work done instead of devoting your entire life to your neurosis.

An enlightened science responsive to their needs would provide them with the appropriate medicines and technological tools, instead of devoting most of its resources to fields like cosmetic-surgery research, which it does because (quite frankly) that's where the money is.

That would be bad, because it is so much cheaper to deliver medical care outside hospitals.Instead of devoting so much energy to reshuffling the pack within the NHS, the government should have done more to bring new entrants into the health-care market.

Instead of streets devoted to the car, the first new street in the centre for 50 years is pledged to pedestrians, linking two of Manchester's oldest buildings the Cathedral and St Ann's church.

Although Jardine was a qualified solicitor he did not work much in law, choosing instead to devote most of his working life to banking and, later on, journalism.

But in the first few months of the Bush administration, Mr. Cheney did little public fund-raising, instead devoting much of his time to organizing the administration and to overseeing policy development, especially the White House energy plan.

Rather, Reich wonders whether the size of the foundation's donation marks a shift in its own giving trajectory -- away from the promotion of vouchers and charters to instead devoting a large chunk of its resources toward developing a pipeline of highly effective teachers.