Sentence examples for long-standing devotion from inspiring English sources
It was during these years that BR's chairman, Sir Peter Parker, maintained his long-standing devotion to Blake's poetry and painting.
His charitable work and long-standing devotion to an institution America prizes above all, marriage, mean Nicklaus is far longer off the political tee than Woods can ever be.
Much appears to depend on Specter, who retains his long-standing devotion to NIH and who, according to The New York Times, has called $40 billion, rather than the current $30 billion--the new starting point for negotiations on NIH annual appropriations--the new baseline.
Bai's long-standing devotion to the cause of ersatz centrism is matched only by his disdain for those he feels are embedded in old paradigms.
They have to prove themselves by having a long standing devotion to living the life that God intends for us to live.
Gertie's life was filled with long-standing friendships, devotion to her family, and with charitable works.
Meanwhile the couple has come to a sort of emotional crossroads, torn between a long-standing loyalty to the motherland and devotion to their American family.
Sir Edwin Lutyens furthered his long-standing working relationship with horticulturist Gertrude Jekyll, whose devotion to traditional cottage garden plants and roses greatly influenced the appearance of the cemeteries.
In addition to her devotion for wellness, she's a long-standing member of the Screen Actors Guild.
Max Weber identified three inner justifications, or sources of legitimacy, for the exercise of authority: (1) traditional norms sanctified by long-standing convention, (2) charisma, which attracts the personal confidence and devotion of followers, and (3) rational-legal considerations supported by belief in the validity of legal statutes and functional competence.
In their case, it is not so much naive devotion to the UN that motivates them, but atavistic anti-Americanism (Suez is not forgotten), long-standing sympathy for conservative Arabs and distaste combined with envy for what they see as Mr Blair's grandstanding with the American president.
