Sentence examples for was devoted first from inspiring English sources

By tradition a British butcher is a jolly chap; and few could be jollier than a man whose life was devoted, first, to making the perfect sausage, and, second, to matching it with the perfect foaming pint.

One approach was devoted first to "Life and Work," a view that the essentials of Christianity could be best found and expressed when people followed the way or did the works of Christ, since this constituted his essence.

This article was devoted first to investigating the fluidization of 0 40 mm coal particles in order to demonstrate the technical feasibility of the PCT.

Most of them are devoted first and foremost to the national team, on which they have spent the last two years being drilled by the German coach Reinhold Fanz.

One sequence, of which both Geisels were particularly fond, as illustrative of the serenity of Japanese culture, was devoted to sixteenth-century Japan.

The first concert was an all 20th-century affair, while the second was devoted to Mahler's Third Symphony.

Locke's Essay Concerning Human Understanding (1690) was devoted to the first, and Hume's Treatise of Human Nature (1739 40), "being an attempt to apply the method of experimental reasoning to moral subjects," was devoted to the second.

Albert, who was devoted to his first-born, confronted Victoria on the incompetence of the staff selected by the Baroness.

The first session was devoted to fielding and throwing to first base.

The first study was devoted to nasal cells and the second study to buccal cells.

The second half was devoted to Beethoven's Seventh Symphony.