In 1966 he gave up teaching, telling colleagues that he wished to devote himself to poetry.
The characteristics that make it so distinctive and beautiful require attention and thought, which is perhaps more effort than many people would wish to devote to a beverage.
The chancellorship went to Thomas More, who had told Henry that he did not approve of the divorce and who wished to devote himself to a fight against Lutheran heresy.
"Imagine the Japanese response if the U.S. government were to say publicly that it wished to devote more attention to China than Japan," the cable quotes Mr. Campbell as saying.
In 1994 Mitchell was offered the U.S. Supreme Court seat vacated by retiring justice Harry A. Blackmun, but he declined the nomination, stating that he wished to devote his time to health care reform.
For most recipients, the value of the six-year-old award has less to do with the money than with the opportunity it grants the winner to make a "wish": to devote the funds to a humanitarian project that will almost inevitably draw donations and other help from the organization's corporate partners and influential supporters.
And he sought to rebut suggestions by his former aides that he had failed to engage in the campaign as fully as necessary because his wife, Callista, was micromanaging his schedule and did not wish to devote every waking minute to the slog of a campaign.
His health, however, was not good and soon he wished to devote more time to original philosophical writing.
In fact, the entire clearing business is built upon the success of smaller firms who wish to devote their efforts and capital to sales functions.
"Shaken by the allegations, I wish to devote my time to the point.
