The phrase "zealous to" is grammatically correct and can be used in written English.
It means to be full of enthusiasm and dedication towards accomplishing something. Here are some examples: - She was zealous to prove her worth to her boss. - The volunteers were zealous to help the victims of the natural disaster. - The team was zealous to win the championship. - The students were zealous to learn about different cultures. - He was zealous to defend his beliefs in the face of criticism.
Haugen's critics repeatedly use the word "zealous" to describe the mission's work.
Someone said that this was a common trait among converts, that they become zealous to demonstrate their faith.
The moderate Sufi called for a corrupt political class to be swept away; he may have the support of the army, zealous to protect its privileges.
"These people are so zealous to get out there and say, 'Look what I did; look at these kids I saved,' " he said.
Even in the United States, of course, the Secret Service can be zealous to a fault in protecting presidents and foreign visitors.
A well-known California vigilante in the 1850s, Baker was described by Gideon Welles, the secretary of the Navy, as "wholly unreliable, regardless of character and the rights of persons, incapable of discrimination, and zealous to do something sensational".
In documents seen by the BBC in 2005 British officials argued it would be "over-zealous" to impose safeguards.
It wouldn't be over-zealous to describe "BBF" as anti-British, or at least, anti the idea of a United Kingdom.
In our initial experiments some episomal plasmids suffered large deletions that included all or part of the reporter cassette, which we found was due to over zealous attempts to remove episomes that lack the bar code by digestion with BstZ17I, which is unique to this region.
Leave an open invitation for the overly zealous welcomer to come to you for advice and direction.
While the Constitution grants indigent defendants the right to an attorney, public defenders carry crushing workloads and often simply do not have the time or resources to provide zealous representation to their clients.
