Sentence examples for on a devotion from inspiring English sources

If residents can be forgiven for presuming to know New York, then visitors to this city, including Republican delegates from around the country, can be forgiven for embracing a similar delusion: of thinking that they, too, know New York, based on a devotion to "Law and Order" and a three-day business trip to a Sheraton near Times Square.

A Canonical Coronation (Latin: Coronatam Canonicus): is a pious institutional act of the Pope, on behalf of a devotion.

Ms. O'Donnell was one of these, a little girl from Commack whose mother passed on to her a devotion to the theater in the form of an LP that contained what might be the slogan of a world seen through Rosie-colored glasses: "Don't Rain on My Parade".

Often, an adult presents a devotion on some life lesson.

As a result, they have had to rely on shrewd evaluation and a devotion to development.

Yet the two Frenchmen, along with a band of like-minded listeners, formed a club (they even obtained an official police permit) based on a passionate devotion to Bix and Louis and Eddie Lang and Joe Venuti.

But in this matter it would be a shame to throw out the I.N.S.'s careful consideration based on a slavish devotion to the literal words of the statute.

The continued pursuit of Polanski by the Los Angeles D.A.'s office, whether right or wrong, whether based on a disinterested devotion to procedural justice or a frothing pursuit of vengeance, is no surprise; I wouldn't expect many prosecutors' offices to behave differently.

Yet it rests on a simplistic devotion, a conviction that an unerring doctrine exists and must be followed in all cases.

The chief steward of this project was John Bloomfield Jervis, an engineer who pursued the project with a devotion bordering on obsession.

She is credited to have attained sainthood exclusively on the basis of her intense devotion to Vithoba, a devotion reflected in her abhangas.