Since Mr. Blass died in 2002, the company that owns his name has struggled to maintain the devotion of his old customers.
According to a book just published in Germany, the presiding genius of Chanel is still maintaining the sort devotion to eccentricity that helped him shed six stone during the 90s on a diet of cactus juice and horsemeat.
Court enforcement of extra-statutory norms also permitted the Athenians to enforce a variety of social norms while maintaining the fictions of voluntary devotion to military and public service and of limited state interference in private conduct.
Our knowledge of innovative treatments is enhanced by our compassion for patients and their families and a devotion to maintaining the highest standard of care.
In March 2007, Edwards announced that Mike Disa had been hired to direct the sequel, and expressed enthusiasm over his involvement, saying that he "has a real passion for the film and a devotion to maintaining the Hoodwinked world.
Through years of poverty, Mr. Vitolo, a modest man who works as a janitor at Jacobi Medical Center and prays that his two grown daughters find good husbands, has maintained this devotion.
It is, after all, about love and its fruits: both the falling in love and the maintaining of affection, devotion, tenderness.
But among the many readers who privately maintained their devotion to the old poet was Robert Frost, in many ways Longfellow's true successor.
And I'm still a little unsure of just how Qawdhan walks the line between two Shabaabs if it's possible to maintain a devotion to the ghost of Shabaab past without falling into the gravitational pull of the current Shabaab.
NATO represents the West's devotion to democracy and freedom, and its determination, by means of military strength and political unity, to maintain the freedom of its members.
