Sentence examples for was devoted as from inspiring English sources

Of his two sons, the elder edited his latest Despatches and the younger produced the grandchildren to whom he was devoted, as he was to all children.

He later married Janet, the former wife of the celebrated Guardian feature writer Geoffrey Moorhouse, becoming stepfather to their four children, one of whom, Brigie, to whom he was devoted, as she was to him, died in 1981 at the age of 16.

Mr. Leahy and Mr. Grassley noted that the Justice Department and the F.B.I. had attacked the findings of a study by Syracuse University last spring suggesting that the F.B.I. was devoting as much attention to nonterrorism cases after the Sept. 11 attacks as before.

The landscape artist April Gornik has been devoting as much energy lately to her new acoustic guitar as to her work.

Family doctors are devoting as many as four days a week to setting up clinical commissioning groups (CCGs), the groups of family doctors that will become key NHS bodies from April 2013.

The lion's share of costs associated with sending humans into space is devoted, as it should be, to making sure they survive the voyage.

Planet Gore, which was launched eight months ago as part of the National Review's Web site, is devoted, as you would expect, to belittling environmental problems, especially global warming.

It is an exclusive, sub-radar affair that is devoted, as the motto goes, to "bringing the smart and the useless together".

The booklet notes, by the fortepianist and scholar John Irving, are devoted as much to the question of what Mozart's pianos sounded like as they are to the music at hand.

A vibrant performance here heeded the composer's wish that "I would like the attitude of the musicians playing it to be devoted as it would be when playing a serenade to a lover".

Readers of his 2007 atheist classic, "God Is Not Great," will get the frisky "convert" bit; more than a few of the pages in "Mortality" are devoted — as it were — to a final, defiant and well-­reasoned defense of his non-God-fearingness.