Decide on how many hours you intend to devote to your work, and then follow through.
John R. Bolton, the American ambassador, said he intended to devote time to discussing the succession plan in the Security Council this month, while the United States occupies the presidency.
His sentence was commuted to imprisonment, and he was released in June 1801, a middle-aged man standing on the threshold of a new life, which he intended to devote entirely to the improvement of Hungarian literature.
Dr. Hennessy said he intended to devote attention to the fields, including using his connections in Silicon Valley to help the humanities and social science departments secure more support for their programs.
Brooks' raucous two-hour concert at the AllState Arena in the Chicago suburb of Rosemont marked his return to the global concert circuit after a 14-year retirement, intended to devote time to raising his three daughters, who are now adults.
When he retired from the New York Philharmonic in 1983, Mr. Baker said that he intended to devote himself to playing recitals programs and concertos, and his travels took him around the United States, as well as to Europe and Asia.
If these writers intended to devote their full authorial attentions to these topics, would they not write more detailed and thoughtful essays on these subjects?
IN 2006, when the conductor Esa-Pekka Salonen announced that he would step down from his position as the music director of the revitalized Los Angeles Philharmonic in 2009, he said he intended to devote more time to composing.
Mr. Schneider said last week that he intended to devote more time to his wine-marketing consulting practice at RF/Binder Partners in New York City, where he is involved with Wines of Germany and Wines of Chile, both clients.
Instead, an executive from the group's label, Constellation Records, climbed onstage and said that the band intended to devote the $30,000 in prize money to buying musical instruments for Quebec prison inmates.
