Sentence examples for measure of devotion from inspiring English sources

The dead had set a task for the living -- that we "take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion".

And they don't even try to comprehend the cause for which the Union dead gave the last full measure of devotion.

The soldiers who "gave the last full measure of devotion" at Gettysburg so that the "nation might live" were Union soldiers.

Abraham Lincoln knew what he was doing at the graves of the fallen soldiers at Gettysburg when he vowed "increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion", rather than "increased devotion to that cause which they gave the last full measure of devotion for".

At the same time, we struggle to understand the courage of the men who fought and, as Lincoln said in the Gettysburg Address, "gave the last full measure of devotion".

"Four score and seven years ago" -- a sonorous way of recalling the founding of the nation 87 years before he spoke -- is a phrase many now recite by rote, as is "the last full measure of devotion".

The numbers they have brought back are the measure of their devotion and their courage.

If it is important enough to show up, then give it the full measure of your devotion.

In a measure of their devotion to voting, Ordinance 49.105 lets election officials have unruly voters arrested -- but only after they get a chance to cast their ballots.

As a measure of his devotion, Ishikawa pledged his prize money to relief efforts in Japan after the earthquake and tsunami last year.

The president talked at length about giving the initiative the full measure of his devotion and said that questions about separation of church and state were not an issue.