Sentence examples for ordered to devote from inspiring English sources

His first five years were overshadowed by the paranoid, final phase of the Stalin era, when he and his colleagues were ordered to devote much of their energy to tracking down the so-called Zionist and Titoist conspirators, whose mostly non-existent plots throughout the Soviet bloc obsessed the disturbed mind of the ageing dictator.

He left the order to devote his life to fighting injustice.

(She quit high school in order to devote herself to skating).

In 1887 she resigned a pastorate she had accepted nine years earlier in order to devote herself to suffrage work.

Goelet has cut down a bit on his Estate time in order to devote more to the Museum.

In 1970 he retired from his administrative position in order to devote his time exclusively to choreography.

Then, for many years, he suspended his academic work during the summer in order to devote himself to farming.

In the time remaining to him — less than five years — he lived off the remains of his inheritance in order to devote himself to greatness.

Bob Herbert ("Tried listening lately?" Views, July 23) pleads with us to stop talking on our cellphones in order to devote ourselves to slowing down and listening more.

In 1905 Schweitzer announced his intention to become a mission doctor in order to devote himself to philanthropic work, and in 1913 he became a doctor of medicine.

However, he rejected them and returned to Puerto Rico in 1921 in order to devote himself to the cause of Puerto Rican independence.