Sentence examples for said devotion from inspiring English sources

For one thing, Mets fans said, devotion to their team had become awfully expensive.

At St. Helena, in the Parkchester section of the Bronx, where the shrine was built on the stump of an old tree in the middle of a parking lot, Msgr. Thomas Derivan said devotion to the Virgin had crossed ethnic lines in his congregation of 1,800 people, only about 500 of whom are Hispanic.

Quarterback Emmett Davis said devotion to his religion and the mission is just part of who his friend is.

This can be a problem if the music isn't projected with sufficient passion - I'd almost say devotion.

Others beg on the steps leading to the river, where Hindus say devotions.

She said this devotion came from a promise she had made to Dr. Clench.

He said his devotion to LeGrand stemmed from a promise made to parents of young men he recruited.

Mr. Wayland, 43, said his devotion stemmed from his background and the "simple unfairness of providing hundreds of thousands of children with an inadequate education".

Anita Watkins, 71, a retired nurse, said her devotion to former President Bill Clinton trumped her desire to see a black man in the White House.

William Jackson, deputy director general of the International Union for Conservation of Nature in Gland, Switzerland, said abstract devotion was misguided: "At this time in history we have great faith in having the technological ability to solve problems, and that faith has proved incorrect in this place".

Born in Brooklyn to an Italian-American family, she said her devotion to women's rights was influenced by her grandmother, whose immigrant parents pulled her from school after the eighth grade because they feared that education would make her unmarriageable.