Sentence examples for were still devoting from inspiring English sources

ReprintsOn the streets of Sana'a many Yemenis were still devoting the best part of their days to chewing qat, a mildly euphoria-inducing leaf, rather than striving to topple Mr Saleh's beleaguered government, which faces tribal unrest in the north, separatism in the south and al-Qaeda here and there".Yemen is not Tunisia", Mr Saleh insisted.

My father and I were still devoted to the Rockets, but we no longer went to games.

At that time, large tracts of land in the northern part of the state were still devoted to farms.

While speaking to TV Guide, Nash pointed out how results from a viewer focus group showed that some audience members were still devoted to the "Today" host.

Influential liberal writers, such as The Atlantic's James Fallows, are still devoting enormous amounts of energy to defending the plan.

But will it work?Pennsylvania is the odd man out in the current election campaign, the only big state that voted Democratic in 2004 that Mr McCain is still devoting serious resources to.

Indeed, one of the most chilling characteristics of "Alys, Always" is that it takes place in a subculture in which people are still devoting their lives to books, yet no one seems remotely interested in reading anything.

Meanwhile, he was still devoting most of his time to painting, teaching art at the University of the City of New York (later New York University), and to politics (he ran on anti-immigrant and anti-Roman Catholic tickets for mayor of New York in 1836 and 1841).

In addition, we know that Russia is still devoting large resources to developing strategic missile defense capabilities.

But he is still devoted to nonviolence.

Three are still devoted churchgoers, now in different parishes.