In a film that doesn't devote much effort to inventing original characters and situations, careers and relationships take shape -- or don't -- strictly according to expectations.
When you fertilize a nutrient-poor plot of land, the species adapted to low nutrients are outcompeted by species that do not devote as much energy to nutrient uptake, which outgrow the species adapted to nutrient-poor soils.
On any other less lyrically insipid album -- an album that didn't devote multiple tracks to tacos, for instance -- this track might have been hard to swallow.
Some of his critics call him "Galloping Gus" and say that he does not devote enough time to local politics.
While the term "Sanctuary City" has no legal meaning, the essence is that the city does not devote municipal funds or resources to help enforce federal immigration laws.
With between three- and ten-fold bacteria colonizing our own body (Sender et al., 2016), most of which are in the gastrointestinal (GI) tract (Qin et al., 2010; Zhu et al., 2010), it is hard to imagine that our genome does not devote a particular set of genes to dealing with all the potential threats, as well as coordinating benefits with our microbiome.
Information on production in the North Sea is so transparent that Mr. Gerber says he does not devote any resources to the area.
Many readily acknowledge that they did not devote enough people or resources to the early fight, and that they prematurely lowered their guard.
It's too bad that Cannato did not devote more energy to the urban context and ask us to consider what produced Lindsay's record of failures: the leader or his times?
Ms. Raskin, who was a staff lawyer for the Senate banking committee under a former chairman, Paul S. Sarbanes, said that regulators did not devote enough attention to the importance of capital and of banks' off-balance-sheet assets leading up to the crisis.
