Sentence examples for refuses to devote from inspiring English sources

He refuses to devote his career to the demolition of Berlusconi, preferring dismissal to demonisation, and telling the former prime minister "to his face" that he would very much like to send him into retirement.

Understand that you are dealing with a target audience that doesn't care enough, or simply refuses to devote the time to learn the real facts regarding the real issues.

Moreover, as a voter and writer, a large part of my psyche almost refuses to devote any more keystrokes and column inches to detailing tales of elected officials who are now incarcerated or voted out of office for violating the public's trust and breaking laws.

He and Mary Duane are the only ones who refuse to devote their lives to escape.

But eunuchs still retained influential positions within the government, for the emperor refused to devote himself to statecraft.

"And the more we hunker down and refuse to devote time systematically to discussing these issues and letting people express their honest opinion, the more we are going to fuel the fires of protectionism".

He also claimed Mr Varadarajan had refused to devote sufficient coverage to India's main opposition candidate, Narendra Modi, a Hindu nationalist and one of country's most divisive politicians, who is accused of stoking tensions that led to the killings of Muslims in 2002.

For its part, Microsoft made the unprecedented decision to author an app on its own after YouTube refused to devote any of its resources to supporting Windows Phone devices with an approved native app.

However, in spite of well-documented evidence relating the escalating incidence of cancer to a wide range of avoidable carcinogenic exposures, the NCI remains "asleep at the wheel," and has stubbornly refused to devote significant resources to prevention.

At eight condemned parishes, people devoted to their churches kept round-the-clock vigils, refusing to give them up.

Playing a slavishly devoted wife who refuses to face the truth even when it stares her in the face, Ms. Ryder gives her deepest screen performance in years.