From antiquity, canon law required that a new church be solemnly consecrated, or at least dedicated to God by a blessing, before divine services could be held.
The West, in its Enlightenment enterprise, has, over the centuries, given other cultures the most devoted appreciation, or, at the very least, dedicated scrutiny.
According to Somali and American officials, he imported bomb-making materials, raised money in the Arab world for the insurgency and maintained a steady stream of hardened — or at least dedicated — foreign fighters from Afghanistan, Pakistan, Chechnya and even the United States.
Last but not least, dedicated e-reading devices based on E-Ink technology such as Amazon's Kindle and Sony Electronics Sony Readerr have introduced millions of additional readers to e-books.
If more individuals, organizations, governments and institutions shifted their focus -- or at least dedicated more of their efforts -- to decreasing gender inequity and increasing women's economic empowerment, the results would have immense repercussions not only in the global economy but also in social and political matters all across the world.
The risk of contamination during virus isolation can be minimized by the use of clean rooms or, at least, dedicated clean cabinets, for splitting and preparation of cells, to prevent contamination from infected cell cultures, and by meticulous experimental design (e.g. including uninfected wells between different samples when using multi-well plates) and experimental procedure.
All but 17 units had at least one dedicated room for neuropsychiatric exams; most units (101; 91.8%) had at least one room for other clinical activities (most frequently, for clinical psychologists).
Eight funds at least partly dedicated to Russia are traded on the New York Stock Exchange, according to Lipper Inc.
Rory was an eccentric figure, to say the very least; passionately dedicated to hunting and with a fiery temper, he was the master of foxhounds of the United Pack in Shropshire and hunted about two or three days a week, coming to London for the rest of the time to edit the column.
In a season usually – or at least largely – dedicated to tony prestige pictures – the annual casting of Oscar bait – there are no less than three mass-market Hollywood franchises hogging all the attention and, inevitably, ticket sales: Steven Spielberg's The Adventures of Tintin, David Fincher's The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, and Brad Bird's Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol.
Mastrov has at least one dedicated believer: In 1994 New York investment firm McCown De Leeuw & Co. paid Mastrov and his partner about $12 million for 65% of the company.
