Sentence examples for of our devotion from inspiring English sources

"It is a symbol of our devotion to pure rock and to the fight against oppression," he said proudly.

"Rose is fond of the blacks, as I am, perhaps because of our devotion to our beautiful black nurse Ozzie," Williams wrote, somewhat awkwardly, in his 1975 "Memoirs".

"Racial discrimination furnishes grist for Communist propaganda mills," he said, and "raises doubts even among friendly nations as to the intensity of our devotion to the democratic faith".

We love them anyway, because they are ours, but we don't forget the abuse, and it tempers the quality of our devotion.

As he concluded in his memoirs, finished after his election: "The true test of our devotion to freedom is only just beginning".

This thoughtful plan to "see the game prove worthy of our devotion" is offered with the implicit and sanguine hope that it could actually effect some change.

Thabo Mbeki, South Africa's president, once complained that: "We are blamed as criminals and seen as human beings of a lower order that cannot subject its passions to reason...as natural-born, promiscuous carriers of germs, unique in the world, doomed to a mortal end because of our unconquerable devotion to the sin of lust".

"We are blamed as criminals and seen as human beings of a lower order that cannot subject its passions to reason...as natural-born, promiscuous carriers of germs, unique in the world, doomed to a mortal end because of our unconquerable devotion to the sin of lust," he said.

Seen in this light, our urge to give the full measure of our national devotion to the synchronized swimmers — and the shot-putters and even the heel-and-toe walkers and the beach-volleyball women in their bikinis — is logical and even admirable.

But in spite of our steadfast devotion to ethics, all of a sudden our carefully-crafted lies have been turning up real.

Our ultimate concern, therefore - especially in times of difficulty - becomes a narrowly and erroneously defined notion of public health and personal wellbeing, and our prayers are most zealously offered to the real god of our communal devotion: the almighty market.