Sentence examples for seem to have devoted from inspiring English sources

But, as an industry, carmakers seem to have devoted more resources to working out how to pass emissions tests, rather than exploring ways to reduce noxious emissions themselves.

Johnson, and an extraordinary number of other Tories, seem to have devoted their energies to pounding out duelling columns for the Daily Telegraph rather than to something like a real blueprint for Leave.

Actual voters, meanwhile, are already preoccupied with things like the September 2011 floods in eastern Uttar Pradesh and the unavailability of fertilizers for farmers in central Uttar Pradesh — and politicians are already talking about them as they campaign; but the national media doesn't seem to have devoted a single story to these subjects.

After doing some background reading and concluding, in Gilliam's words, that "Jesus was O.K". (and not all that droll), they decided to write a story about a parallel figure, and they seem to have devoted an inordinate amount of energy to discussing the difference between heresy (good) and blasphemy (bad).

And in the past year he seems to have devoted increasing energy to making a name for himself in the Twittersphere.

In its zeal to pursue Andersen Consulting, it seems to have devoted little attention to its links with its own large consulting practice.

Beating X-Wing must have been supernaturally gratifying because, then and there, Griffith seemed to have devoted himself to finding and exploiting vulnerabilities in systems of all kinds.

At Peter Freeman, Mr. Adamo aligns himself with an admired human producer: the wonderful self-taught artist James Castle, who seems to have devoted every waking minute to drawing with homemade implements and constructing objects from paper, cardboard and string.

"Fiction after Joyce seems to have devoted itself to propaganda, to novels of social relationships, to short stories constructed mousetrap-like to supply, at the finish, a tiny insight typically having to do with innocence violated, or to works written as vehicles for saying no! in thunder," he wrote in 1964, in the second issue (there would be only two) of Location.

But in its original form, the exhibition seems to have devoted almost as much attention to the use of these creatures by New Zealand's indigenous Maori as to the world's cetaceans — an order of more than 80 species of living whales, dolphins and porpoises — and their ancestors.

The director seems to have devoted an impressive amount of work to historical research, the construction of the script, the casting, the location scouting, the physical staging of the action, the direction of actors, and even the selection of music — and seems to have left decisions about the use of the camera for last, and least.