Sentence examples for intention to devote from inspiring English sources

It had been his intention to devote more time to writing, including his long gestating project, British TV Movies, a reference guide to filmed television dramas.

In a series of speeches last week, Obama signalled his intention to devote greater emphasis to domestic and military cybersecurity in 2015, citing recent breaches as "a reminder that cyber threats are an urgent and growing danger".

Amazon goes on to note that both the two physical booksellers had, at the time, "announced their intention to devote substantial resources to online commerce in the near future".

Under his leadership, the United States has already provided more than $360 million to fight the outbreak in West Africa, and announced our intention to devote more than $1 billion to the whole-of-government Ebola response effort.

"The intention is to devote several thousand square feet for incubation," he said.

The original intention (expressed at III.619d-620b) was to devote one book to each of the four divisions; thus Book One deals with the divine nature and the procession or exitus of all things from God, Book Two treats of the Primordial Causes and Book Three their Created Effects, including the nature of ex nihilo creation and the stages of the creation of the world.

In 1905 Schweitzer announced his intention to become a mission doctor in order to devote himself to philanthropic work, and in 1913 he became a doctor of medicine.

Second on the mutual fund list stood the Vice fund, which was founded in 2002 with the proud intention of devoting itself to "socially irresponsible stocks," specifically those in the tobacco, alcohol, gambling and military industries.

In the book's first section, she finishes with art school in London and moves into a Parisian garret — the perfect place for keeping the world away (her avowed intention) and devoting herself to art and love, both of which she finds with the notorious sculptor Auguste Rodin.

After three years of intense study of Kant, Peirce concluded that Kant's system was vitiated by what he called its "puerile logic," and about the age of 19 he formed the fixed intention of devoting his life to the study of and to research in logic.

As interested in my child's education as I am, I have no intention of devoting my time to visiting all 340 of them.