Sentence examples for instead to devote from inspiring English sources

He vowed instead to devote his remaining days in office to governing and promised to assist whoever prevails in November.

There he found that "the majority of people … were there for their own personal advancement", deciding instead to devote himself to academia.

However, it would be good if universities were instead to devote more money to devising courses with higher-level skills in subjects such as engineering which the country needs to meet the demands of the future.

He chose instead to devote himself to painting beautiful things, carefully copying still-life arrangements of flowers, fruits, vegetables, cooking utensils and other household implements in a realist-naturalist style.

As for your correspondent, since a further encounter with the charming Miss Blunt seems altogether improbable, I will decline to undertake a second voyage to "Gulliver's Travels," chusing instead to devote myself to the preparation of my customary Holiday Feast, a delectable Stew made from the flesh of Irish Babies.

The abbot had sent him to Vienna to make a teacher out of him, but he returned to the monastery in disgrace having failed his teaching diploma, and was able instead to devote all his energy to solving the puzzle of inheritance by conducting his famous experiments with pea plants in the monastery garden.

His early years were quiet; the introverted young Pericles avoided public appearances, instead preferring to devote his time to his studies.

The governess was uninterested in money and lacked ambition for herself, instead choosing to devote her time and energy to the princess.

Had he wished, he could have risen to high political place, perhaps to the highest; instead, he chose to devote his powers to the portrayal of England's past.

Instead, he is likely to devote his time to winning back the political support that he has lost in the past few weeks.

Instead she's chosen to devote years of her life to Catullus and while I know nothing about Hellenistic poetry, I'm glad that someone does.