Sentence examples for mass devoted to from inspiring English sources

At a Mass devoted to immigration in Cincinnati, a mix of Catholics, including immigrants from Mexico and Central America and African-Americans, prayed for Congress to act.

The maximum speed of a rocket depends on its exhaust velocity, the fraction of mass devoted to fuel and the configuration of the rocket stages.

Pakistan is a populous country in the Western region of South Asia that has more than a third of its land mass devoted to agriculture.

On this particular Sunday a special evening Mass is devoted to a feast day from Guatemala, drawing a large Central American crowd in holiday mood.

Garland, a committed High Anglican all his adult life, despite a Catholic school education (and a love of Latin mass), was devoted to the city of Chichester, and anthologised Sussex poetry.

So deeply internalized is our obedience to this most capricious despot that artists create passionate odes to its cruelty, and audiences seem never to tire of the most deeply unoriginal mass spectacles devoted to rehearsing the litany of its torments, fixating their very beings on the narrowest glimmer of its fleeting satisfactions.

An afternoon Mass was devoted to those who worked with the cardinal in his previous pastoral affiliations in Scranton, Pa., Philadelphia and the military, and the other primarily for members of religious orders and employees of the Archdiocese of New York, which encompasses 2.4 million Catholics in 10 counties.

A wild cheetah weighs around 50 kilograms and about half of this mass is devoted to its locomotor muscles.

Less than 1% of their body mass is devoted to muscle, compared with more than 50% in fish.

About 12 percent of the Earth's land mass is now devoted to farmland.

Scientists think the mummies, which ranged from cats to birds to crocodiles, served as popular religious offerings and that there was likely a mass breeding program devoted to fulfilling demand.