Sentence examples for stopped devoting from inspiring English sources

They also stopped devoting so much of their income to alcohol and tobacco.

According to Mr Banerjee and Ms Duflo, the typical poor household in Udaipur could spend up to 30% more on food than it does, if only it stopped devoting money to alcohol, tobacco and festivals.

When he was 58 — after he had served in World War II, started a medical practice with his wife, raised his four children and stopped devoting so much of his mornings to preparing lessons for Sunday school at the Methodist church — he began writing "Run With the Horsemen," a novel based on his youth.

We should stop devoting inordinate time and money dealing with people whose behaviour is inconsistent with a just and honest society.

I ask them to stop devoting energy to any issue that does not directly relate to closing this year's budget gap without adding to out-year liabilities".

Insurers and their allies have been trying to scare the commissioners into thinking that insurers will stop devoting resources to some worthwhile activities like disease management programs and health plan accreditation if they can't reclassify them as medical expenses.

But just when you stop devoting any attention to her, she starts realizing your worthiness.

The meatpacking district was served between 1908 and 1957 by a short Chicago 'L' line with several stops, devoted primarily to the daily transport of thousands of workers and even tourists to the site.

"What you have to feel is that nothing's going to stop you devoting every minute of available time to making this book work," says Prosser. "And you have to have that - it's not enough to say, 'Yeah, it's a good book, I think it's a good market, let's put a good cover on it' - that's not enough.

The movie was two and half hours long, but it seemed to race by, cramming in plot points faithfully but not stopping to devote quite enough time to anything.

Mu2e apparatus takes advantage of high intensity muon beams which hit muon stopping targets (devoted for the capture) and uses a basic detector system which is composed by a low-mass straw tubes tracker and by a LYSO crystal calorimeter.