8 sentences with 'devote'
Example sentences and phrases with the word devote and other words derived from it.
• « Having learned at Johns Hopkins University through sometimes failed attempts that I would devote my life to fiction writing, I entered the teaching profession for lack of alternatives. »
• « That same year, Blake decided to devote himself to writing, so he worked at home and took care of the children while Julie concentrated on the TV show. »
• « Julie returned to the United States determined to devote even more time to relief efforts for victims of war, political unrest, famine and poverty. »
• « Rome and Persia did not wage war constantly, but when they did Persia was forced to devote enormous resources to containing Roman rapacity (the buffer state of Armenia changed hands a bewildering number of times in the process). »
• « However, they did not have to devote their time to ministering to the spiritual needs of the laity (i.e. people outside the Church), which was the primary function of priests. »
• « Instead, monks and nuns were to devote themselves to prayer and useful works, activities that were seen as fostering piety and devotion among monks and nuns, and which were often extremely profitable for the monasteries and convents themselves. »
• « Thus, good Calvinists were to devote themselves to scriptural study, temperate living and hard work. Counterintuitively, it was not that these behaviours led to salvation, it was that those already saved acted morally according to God's will. »
• « -Don't you feel sorry for having left your studies behind? -If I consolidate in this profession, maybe I will continue later. Then I will have the opportunity to choose the jobs and to devote more time to myself. »