Vow, sacred voluntary promise to dedicate oneself or members of one's family or community to a special obligation that goes beyond usual social or religious requirements.
A male sociologist told me to forget about pursuing family life because to dedicate oneself to the sociologists calling was a full-time endeavor (unless, of course, one had a wife).
As Nussbaum (1990, p. 328) puts it, "The choice between one potential love and another can feel, and be, like a choice of a way of life, a decision to dedicate oneself to these values rather than these"; liking clearly does not have this sort of "depth".
Meyers distinguishes episodic or local autonomy the capacity to decide in particular situations from programmatic autonomy, which is the capacity to decide major life issues (e.g., whether to be a mother, or whether to dedicate oneself to the pursuit of a career).
Unless one dedicates oneself to the intense study of both languages equally, it cannot be said that one is bilingual.
Now comes the real moment of marriage: dedicating oneself to a partnership of fallen beings, "for better or for worse," in full sight of the worse.
Believing in this possibility — no matter how slim — and dedicating oneself to playing a meaningful role in the struggle to make it a reality focuses one's energy and attention in an unusual way.
Francis changed that almost overnight by showing how radically challenging it could be if a world leader tried to put into practice the basic precepts of the Christian gospel — dedicating oneself fully to task of loving and caring for others — and doing so with genuine joy.
Is the exile self imposed by dedicating oneself to making effigies?
Daryl G. Bloodsaw, an advertising and marketing executive, has not raised much money, but has a cadre of zealously dedicated, mostly female, volunteers.
Google's story: The company is zealously dedicated to helping people find the most useful information on the Internet, and Google's prosperity and the economic opportunity it has created for many thousands of American businesses all flow from that high-minded mission.
