Bin Laden really didn't have to buy the loyalty of the Pashtun tribal chiefs; they were already devoted to him.
In the early 1970s, many researchers were already devoted to the preservation of ancient shipwrecks and their cargo [4 8].
This of course is already devoting more time to a punctuation mark than it probably deserves.
Microsoft was already devoting a large part of its massive R&D budget to speech-recognition technology, but it hoped that L&H would offer a short cut.
That is a sign of how NATO (and especially America) is already devoting more attention to Baltic security.When Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia joined the alliance, Russia was officially not a threat; indeed, it was a NATO partner.
Mr. Marsh, the chief financial officer, said in a telephone interview that FirstEnergy was already devoting $700 million to capital spending this year, much of it to improve its systems, and noted that it decided to speed the investment of $60 million in New Jersey after the July blackouts.
The Smithsonian is already devoting $10 million a year toward genomics research in evolutionary, diversity, conservation, and ecological studies.
Dealing with this appears to be an additional burden on the resources of such countries, a large part of which is already devoted to providing better living standards for its inhabitants.
Shiga's commanding presence caused the I novel to be more respected by most critics than outright works of fiction, but the writings of his disciples are sometimes hardly more than pages torn from a diary, of interest only if the reader is already devoted to the author.
The problem scale refers to the number of people affected and how their lives are impacted, the neglected-ness refers to how many resources are already devoted to the cause, and the solvability refers to the feasibility of evidence-based solutions.
