He was devoting considerable time and expense to the renovation of a rural hunting-lodge.
He is now roving about the Gatineau hills north of Ottawa, devoting his time to books on our forestry heritage.
Should we be devoting more public resources to the young or the old, the business class or the underclass?
All the television and radio channels and newspapers are devoting lots of time to it.
Mr Denbow said his multiplex was devoting six of its 12 screens to showing the films in an effort to meet demand.
Staff size ranges from one person devoting half time to the conference to the equivalent of eleven full-time staff members.
We cannot say how much it costs us, but it will mean a lot of staff devoting time to carry out the audit and we would not do that lightly.
But these did not deter her from devoting her entire life to the dance and also to resuscitate Bharatanatyam.
I also came to express my thanks to the artists who are devoting their time and talents to such a vital cause.
He was unkind to Kurosawa's Seven Samurai, while devoting a whole essay to the adroit but decidedly lesser The Hidden Fortress.
After devoting 18 months to wiring Hong Kong with barbed wire, the island was attacked from the air.
Therefore, devoting substantial staff resources to training, organizing, leading, and sustaining family psychoeducation is seen as a luxury.
By devoting time, energy, and commitment to something besides work, it will be much easier to roll with the punches at the office.
He's devoting his professional life to studying the brush-tailed rock wallaby.
Colleges are devoting ever more resources to students who are deficient in rudimental abilities.
Kudos to Szokolay for devoting part of his program to some of the composer's underrated keyboard gems.
In the intervening time Rothko stopped painting, devoting himself instead to the study of philosophy and mythology.
Somehow, with the help of his managers, he runs the company while devoting most of his spare time to refereeing and his family.
But what's the point in devoting time and effort to what many students would have more or less ungratefully ignored.
Instead of devoting his time to his celebrity status, he spends hour after hour, week after week, working for the little guys... and loving it.
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Mr. Rector has advocated devoting much more federal welfare money for promoting marriage.
Now ever growing groups of people dissimulated their loyalty to the regime, while devoting their time and energy to informal collectives.
We consolidate our accounts and get lower APRs and keep devoting a percentage of our income to paying them off.
This book follows these traditional pairings, devoting separate chapters to each pair.
They were devoting much of their time to it and had received invaluable support from family and friends.
These are massive problems, to which the Transport Secretary should be devoting his undivided attention.
Are you running into a lot of constraints among operators who are devoting digital bandwidth to multiplexes and additional pay-per-view channels?
He's got no problem devoting entire sequences of his film, including the hysterically inappropriate and silly ending, to music montages played out over entire songs.
However, after finishing school, Lynda temporarily abandoned her music career, devoting herself to studying for a literature degree instead.
To help win the fight, manufacturers are devoting unprecedented resources to research and blast-test a new generation of heat-hardened and chemically laminated glass.
As he grows older Frenhofer retreats into seclusion, devoting his last years to a single work that no one has seen and that he cannot bring himself to complete.
The former slaves of Saint Domingue and Guadeloupe abandoned plantation toil whenever they could, instead devoting themselves to subsistence cultivation.
But if all that is true, then why is ABC, like the other broadcast networks, devoting a mere three hours of prime time over four nights for these conventions?
Fathers 4 Justice has proved devastatingly effective at generating publicity, so much so that on Monday Channel 4 will be devoting a one-hour documentary to them.
But Terry, let me bring you back to the media question because the broadcast networks, unlike PBS, are devoting an hour a night on average at best to these proceedings.
And, all things considered, the Comment section of the Globe's Oct. 25 edition devoting four of its seven pieces to the States is not out of order.
Local politics is something they were devoting much of their lives to, yet they could be dispassionately analytical about this part of themselves.
Some acts dodge the question entirely by devoting albums to song-based tracks or downtempo experimentation, others simply compile their vinyl sides and remixes.
Green is a 'hot item' and I notice that people are devoting more attention to it.
We should not be devoting resources to decriminalizing marijuana generally.
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You will have the chance of devoting yourself to your favorite sports, gambling house, music, opera and theatre.
So surely it should be possible to do something similar with wine, devoting a section to sensorial initiation.
But it is not hard to imagine her devoting the same meticulousness to Ahmad that she might apply to preparing for a difficult medical exam.
I am impressed by the number of lawyers who are devoting their time to defending linguistic issues pro bono or for a fraction of the real costs.
Her fiancee was killed in World War I. After this loss, she never married, devoting herself instead to a life as a business woman.
In the early 2000s, after splitting with his wife of 20 years, Stephenson began devoting more time to his interest in art.
Léandre is an experienced businessman, a socially committed family man, who has been devoting a special time to prayer for several years.
When they are in midlife or older, INTJs often find themselves devoting more time to things that were not very appealing when they were younger.
Tackling one job at a trine, devoting to it whatever time is necessary, is the acme of concentration.
The international community has rightfully been devoting its attention to the issue of children and armed conflict for several years.
Democrats said the fact that the House was devoting almost a full day to the proposal illustrated the misplaced priorities of the Republican majority.
Now he's devoting himself, almost exclusively, to just one hydrocolloid, and it's been around for ages: masa.
Swammerdam completed medical studies in 1667 but never practiced medicine, devoting himself to microscopical investigations instead.
Is committed to devoting more time to curatorial activity, if financially feasible.
No one is suggesting we should stop growing flax, so why should there be this huge concern over devoting acreage to biofuels?
Thus the Commission keeps on devoting significant efforts to improve the forecasts in co-operation with the Member States.
You might suppose that devoting profit to the public interest is CSR at its best, or at any rate its noblest.
He grew up in a modest home and became an icon in the union movement, devoting his life to the advancement of the working class.
These people knew that democracy, human rights and social justice were values worth devoting their lives to and risking their lives for.
This prevents them from devoting a considerable amount of court time to any particular case, absent exceptional circumstances.
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However, after devoting most of my professional life to the development of organic agriculture, I knew that he was right in a certain way.
Industrialization and the increase in the pace of business meant that men were devoting more time to their businesses.
Both of these sectors seem to be devoting a growing share of their total human resources to directly biotechnology-related activities.
You can also involve yourself by devoting your time and personal skills to the association.
My passion is Sikhism and that is where I enjoy devoting my spare time.
Finding effective ways to relax, such as devoting time for relaxation, taking yoga classes or fitting in gentle exercise, may aid the chances of conception.
Lastly, on Gitana X, Alex Marmorat is devoting himself to the construction of his Mini Transat, so Arnaud de Boringer is to replace him as wincher.
He had been a Union carpenter for 30 years before retiring and devoting himself to nature photography.
Since then, the museum registrar has become borderline obsessive in devoting his time to stopping Landis.
At the very least, she seemed more than happy to be devoting her time to this during that Ellen appearance.
He can hardly fault Bob Schieffer for devoting most of the interview to his divisive words.
You now pinpoint creative callings, and nothing can keep you from devoting to them.
Instead of devoting all their available time and attention to advancing the claim, at least some of them are bound, metaphorically, to be looking behind them.
Scientists are devoting their lives to saving the last survivors of the sea, sadly renowned as the object of the largest commercial exploitation of a halieutic resource.
He helped attract star-struck recruits, but with millions in the bank, he had no interest in devoting the required hours to recruiting, coaching and selling the program.
Gibbons is alone in devoting a whole chapter to chitons as food.
Many developing countries, however, used their meagre revenues in the early decades of development to build up the modern sector without devoting sufficient effort to overall improvements in human capability.
Try devoting a sunny corner of the flower bed to feline favourites like catmint and catnip.
That groundwork will lead into a review of the Canadian provinces, devoting particular attention to factors that have made them far less active players than many U. S. states in the development of policy.
In the spirit of devoting all of its energies to the development and the quality of its business, SSQ General Insurance renewed the collective labour agreement with its employees for a further four-year period.
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His family's wealth enabled him to live a life of leisure while devoting himself to his literary and musical interests.
For its part, the European Union, which was until now devoting all its efforts to development assistance, has decided to become involved in the maintenance of stability and restoration of peace in Africa.
This shortfall must be eliminated, by devoting attention and resources to education about development in the new Member States and by encouraging old and new Members to exchange experiences.
To conclude we can say that in all the schools the educators are devoting conscious, and considerable efforts to integrating pedagogically even though they encounter a number of hitches in the process.
If devoting significant resources to fulfilling the contract means not moving forward in an already planned direction, then ask yourself if submitting a bid is the right thing to do.
His mother, Annette, while happy at his success, urged her son to finish his studies and pass his baccalauréat before devoting all his time to his new music career.
We welcome the decision of all six Presidents of the Conference for this year to coordinate their efforts throughout the session, devoting them to the common goal of launching substantive activities in our forum.
Sports and youth development are also essential activities for Saputo employees, with a great many of them devoting their time and energies to helping organizations geared to supporting the young.
In addition, Carpentier is now devoting part of his time to organizing and analyzing four decades of medical data on orthostatic intolerance and cardiovascular deconditioning in astronauts.
On the other hand, the present impasse literally prevents the authorities of the country from devoting all the necessary energy to the priority issue of socioeconomic development.
By devoting themselves to the educational mission in schools, consecrated persons contribute to making the bread of culture reach those in most need of it.
We are blessed with individuals and farm families, all devoting their time and energy without ever looking at a clock to see when the day starts and ends.
By contrast, the Court of Appeal stated that Felker had admitted to not devoting his full time and attention to his duties as an employee while preparing the proposal.
Magda devoting her life to good works seemed altogether out of the picture!
Luther dedicated himself to the Augustinian order, devoting himself to fasting, long hours in prayer, pilgrimage, and frequent confession.
Therefore, good supervision must be guided by the existing risks and must take a principle-based approach instead of devoting itself to detailed individual analysis.
Brian Rayner Cook graduated in Music from Bristol University, developing his interests as an organist and as a conductor and repetiteur, before devoting himself wholeheartedly to singing.
Kaplan can be a terrible storyteller, maddeningly proleptic, interrupting marriages to go back to engagements, topic-sentencing a paragraph with one person's illness and devoting all the rest of it to another's giving birth.
Restoration works, partly carried out, will enable the new owners to take their turn in devoting themselves to the development of the property, whilst envisaging their choice in home or use.
This desperate idea of devoting one's whole life to an artistic counting from 1 to infinity demands respect, although it more resembles a stoic philosophical attitude than any kind of artistic expression.
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Before devoting all his time to Indigenous affairs, he spent over twenty years as a seasonal worker and then a further decade as stevedore and organiser for the Seamen's Union.
Moreover, the Europeans tend to spend their meagre resources inefficiently, generally devoting the lion's share to salaries rather than equipment, and frittering resources on countless national projects.
Rather, it mucked about in dark, abstruse corners of corporate finance, devoting three of its 19 pages to academic references. But buried in those pages were striking insights into monetary policy.
We have one sports reporter devoting virtually all of his time to providing insight and commentary through his game day previews and post game reports.
For example, development partners were a long way from meeting the target of devoting between 0.15 per cent and 0.20 per cent of their GNP to official development assistance.
Crossed by Nice Arts, it played sculpture, ceramic and pottery before devoting completely in painting? Art which she will learn to control in self-educated person during her leisure.
After retiring from a teaching career, Jean-Guy Marsan has put his interest in the history of Montreal to good use by devoting his leisure time as a tourist guide and lecturer for Montreal visitors.
The staff members of UNHCR and partners, implementers and other humanitarian personnel on the ground are selflessly devoting themselves to helping those most in need, very often in difficult and dangerous situations.
But it offered no comment on the prospects for a treaty, devoting instead considerable time to the allegedly negative effects of providing easy access to government relief.
As a student, he picked up his guitar again and began devoting an increasing amount of time and energy to music, working in a fast food restaurant to make ends meet.
Evidence in the Canadian Census 2001 suggests that Canada's aging population, many of whom remain healthy and active well into their senior years, are devoting significant resources to more demanding leisure pursuits.
And since light rail costs so much more than buses, devoting money to rail will improve mobility far less than devoting the same amount to buses.
In fact, the singer was devoting an increasing amount of time and energy to her astrological charts and music seemed once again to be taking second place in her life.
Depending on the type and size of the business, the challenge is usually in the area of devoting the appropriate resources to develop and implement an applicably sound energy efficiency management plan.
He broke off your engagement, it's true, but the fact that he has stopped to think so carefully about what marriage entails points to how seriously he takes the possibility of devoting his life to someone.
The security services have been tracking Britons travelling to Syria for several years and, with concern growing, are now devoting more resources to this.
The Commonwealth Games fill a hole in the sporting calendar but, when you think about it, the idea of devoting a multi-sport event to the Commonwealth of Nations is more than a little silly.
Yvan Thérien has been devoting all of his time as project co-ordinator.
Is it worth devoting so much zeal to protecting America's young minds from brain damage if the finest among them wind up too conservative to seek anything but a sure paycheck?
With Alice's encouragement, the Elgars moved to London to be closer to the centre of British musical life, and Elgar started devoting his time to composition.
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For example, ethnic group leaders may lead public lives in the ethnic community while devoting part of their private lives to assimilatory activities.
Bantman, while necessarily devoting some space to the topic of anarchist insurrectionism, takes care to show that the importance of this trend has been overstated.
But he's decided to hang up the track spikes this year in favor of devoting more time to football and being able to fully participate in Spring Practice.

Father Brandsma is devoting some of his energy to a change in copal gathering.
What I mean is that he is thinking of devoting himself to literature exclusively.
And he had been devoting the years of his manhood to seeking just such a secret.
But these particular speedwells gave up devoting themselves to insects and became adapted for fertilisation by the wind instead.
The doctor was the person who used it most, devoting much of his time to investigations in histology.
Mr. sparling was an Englishman, and a man of some means who was devoting himself to exploration in Asia Minor.
With these funds the central bank was to purchase state bonds, devoting the interest to redeeming the notes of the national banks.
In his commonplace book, begun in 1783, we have ever-recurring hints of his devoting himself to poetry.
I am very much obliged to you for devoting so much time to me already.
The kindness which he showed in devoting himself to my assistance exceeds all description.
The man cursed, devoting himself and Paul to unnameable penalties.
Came the several days of the examinations, during which time I scarcely closed my eyes in sleep, devoting every moment to cramming and reviewing.
Then, as I looked up at it, while it dripped, it seemed to my oppressed conscience like a phantom devoting me to the Hulks.
He held on, but I made no effort to dislodge him, devoting my whole effort to climbing out of reach of the rest of the brutes.
Danny, a tricky and consummate ring general, stalled and blocked and held on, devoting himself to recovering from that dazing first-round blow.
Sparsit asked in a light conversational manner, after mentally devoting the whelp to the Furies for being so uncommunicative.
But, in spite of all her friends' urgency, and her own wish of seeing Ireland, Miss Fairfax prefers devoting the time to you and Mrs.
We all have choices to make in life, so as long as the AIDS epidemic exists, there's nothing I'd rather be doing than devoting my time to confronting it.
I cannot feel that I have done my duty as humble historian of the March family, without devoting at least one chapter to the two most precious and important members of it.

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