Sentence examples for intended to dedicate himself from inspiring English sources

Abraham was also disinclined to allow Felix to follow a musical career until it became clear that he seriously intended to dedicate himself to it.

Parsons said that Turner informed him on Tuesday night of this decision to leave, and that Turner intends to dedicate himself to his many philanthropic efforts.

Since retiring from baseball, Rivera intends to dedicate himself to philanthropy and his churches.

Williams said she intended to dedicate this season to his memory.

She said she was now going to focus her energies on assisting the criminal investigation and the Leveson Inquiry, and intended to dedicate her portion of the settlement to protecting herself and her children from further invasions of privacy.

Shostakovich had intended to dedicate his last work, the Viola Sonata, to Barshai – but the composer's death in 1975 and Barshai's emigration the next year meant that the dedication and the privilege of the first performance went instead to Fyodor Druzhinin.

The plays of Samuel Beckett, to whom Adorno had intended to dedicate Aesthetic Theory, are emblematic in that regard.

At some point in 1755 he decided to build a summer-house by the riverside which he intended to dedicate to his muse Shakespeare as a "temple" to the playwright.

That was a grave political blunder, because it led some conservatives to suspect that he did not intend to dedicate the Senate's time to a fruitless symbolic pageant of protest.

She's looking for those who are prepared to put in long hours in the studio, apply for prizes and residencies and intend to dedicate themselves to art for decades to come.

Indeed, she intends to dedicate the occasion of the reading "as a tribute to all women who have been oppressed physically and sexually in the mantle of Caste".