Loyal and unscrupulous, with a single-minded ambition to which he devoted all his energies, he outmatched the English diplomats time and time again until, by a kind of poetic justice, he fell at the battle of Courtrai, the victim of the equally nationalistic if less articulate Flemings.

Neither Mantle nor Maris is totally devoted to baseball above all else.

They all praised the virtues of a life devoted to the tilling of the soil.

Abba Mari moved to Montpellier, where, to his chagrin, he found the study of rabbinical lore greatly neglected by the young, who devoted all of their time and zeal to science and philosophy.

He has devoted his life to making the Talmud accessible to all Jews.

By 1860, Cuba was devoted to growing sugar, having to import all other necessary goods.

RAI International's latest politically appointed President ( an avowed right wing nationalist and former spokesperson for Giorgio Almirante, the leader of the post-fascist party of Italy ) had unilaterally terminated a 20-year-old agreement and stripped all of its 1, 500 to 2, 000 annual hours of programming from TLN Telelatino, a Canadian-run channel which had devoted 95 % of its prime time schedule to RAI programs for 20 years since TLN was founded.

A key distinction between analysis of algorithms and computational complexity theory is that the former is devoted to analyzing the amount of resources needed by a particular algorithm to solve a problem, whereas the latter asks a more general question about all possible algorithms that could be used to solve the same problem.

The Apostle John devoted his first Epistle to countering early proto-gnostic cults that had arisen in the first century, all claiming to be " Christian " ( 1 Jn.

The Britannica does not cover topics in equivalent detail ; for example, the whole of Buddhism and most other religions is covered in a single Macropædia article, whereas 14 articles are devoted to Christianity, comprising nearly half of all religion articles.

Though he was undoubtedly devoted to her, Einhard wrote nothing of his wife until after her death on 13 December 835, when he wrote to a friend that he was reminded of her loss in ‘ every day, in every action, in every undertaking, in all the administration of the house and household, in everything needing to be decided upon and sorted out in my religious and earthly responsibilities ’.

Two unique features set systems engineering apart from other engineering disciplines: ( 1 ) the particular attention devoted to both the physical processes involved and to the decision making components of the industrial environment, and ( 2 ) the wide scope applicability of its systems methodology, not limited to manufacturing industries, but effectively used in all kinds of business organizations.

Ximenes was involved in all the major official monumental projects in Italy from the 1880s on and devoted his energies as from 1911 primarily to commissions for important public works in São Paulo, Kiev, New York and Buenos Aires.

Admirers from all quarters of Europe visited him there and he was surrounded by devoted friends, notably developing a lasting association with the great publisher Johann Froben.

Writing to The Times, Hayek said, " May one who has devoted a large part of his life to the study of the history and the principles of liberalism point out that a party that keeps a socialist government in power has lost all title to the name ' Liberal '.

This move proved to be a turn off to all other than her devoted fans.

She was devoted to Jahangir and he forgot all about the world and entrusted all the work of the government to her.

He is also devoted to philanthropic endeavors, most notably his own White Feather Foundation and the Whaledreamers Organization, both of which promote the co-existence of all species and the health and well-being of the Earth.

" Nearly all my labors have been devoted, either directly or indirectly, to the investigation of our earlier language, poetry and laws.

I find it sad, but all too human, that there are vast bureaucracies concerned about nuclear waste, huge organisations devoted to decommissioning power stations, but nothing comparable to deal with that truly malign waste, carbon dioxide.

A possible reason may be that, of all the books of the Torah, Leviticus is the closest to being purely devoted to mitzvot and its study thus is able to go hand-in-hand with their performance.

In fact, much analysis is devoted to cases where so-called market failures lead to resource allocation that is suboptimal by some standard ( defense spending is the classic example, profitable to all for use but not directly profitable for anyone to finance ).

These wars resulted ( though war's evolution has not yet ended ) in the atomic bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, with all the forces and capabilities of the state devoted to destroying forces and capabilities of the enemy state ( thus " total war ").

Inasmuch as I am concerned, Most Excellent Sir, the effusion of my gratitude is inexplicable, at having had the unique satisfaction capable of filling the human heart, as is to deserve the public confidence in circumstances so critical to govern the independent Isthmus ; and I can only correspond to such high distinction with the sacrifices I am willing to make since I devoted myself, as it wished, to the mother country that has seen me be born and to who I owe all that I own ...

Many of the Tolstoys devoted their spare time to literary pursuits.

When working in Paris his spare time was devoted to reading and understanding the history of art and aesthetics.

Acoustical research was his real interest, and to that he devoted all the time and money he could spare from his business.

One of the most learned men of his day, he devoted his spare time to history, and discovered that many of the oldest and most cherished Scandinavian manuscripts were clever forgeries.

Educated at Repton, whence he proceeded to the University of Aberdeen, he became in 1817 vicar of Little Horwood, Buckinghamshire, and devoted his spare time to literature and particularly to the study of Anglo-Saxon.

He devoted his spare time to literature, and in 1782 published an attack on Thomas Warton's History of English Poetry.

Concerned for his fitness, in his spare time he devoted himself to exercise, building his strength to the point where he was able to easily carry five hundredweight ( 560 lb ; 250 kg ).

Walter Hohmann In his spare time he devoted to celestial mechanics calculations, and in 1920 he published his book " Die Ereichbarkeit der Himmelskörper " ( The Attainability of the Celestial Bodies ).

In 1703 Bengel left Stuttgart and entered the University of Tübingen as a student at the Tübinger Stift, where, in his spare time, he devoted himself especially to the works of Aristotle and Spinoza, and, in theology, to those of Philipp Spener, Johann Arndt and August Francke.

Cahan transferred his commitment to socialism to his new country, and he devoted all the time he could spare from work to the study and teaching of radical ideas to the Jewish working men of New York.

All his spare time was devoted to the study of theology and to works of charity.

For a time Tregelles worked at the ironworks, Neath Abbey, Glamorgan, where he devoted his spare time to learning Greek, Hebrew, Aramaic, and Welsh.

He subsequently devoted all his spare time to geology and especially to the fossil reptilia, describing many remains of dinosaurs from the Isle of Wight.

While working as a farmer he devoted his spare time to studying law.

Eager to learn, and naturally gifted with a bright intellect and a good memory, he devoted himself to study whenever he could spare the time from his ordinary recreation.

A few months before his death in 1972, he wrote an abbreviated version of the work, which he titled " Gleanings from Snow Country ," that shortened the novel to a few spare pages, a length that placed it among his Palm-of-the-Hand Stories, a form to which Kawabata devoted peculiar attention for more than 50 years.

His main interest was mathematics and he devoted much of his spare time to his " Screw theory ".

He devoted his spare time to botany and zoology ( especially ornithology ).

After abandoning his studies for the bar, Crosse devoted his spare time increasingly to studying electricity at Fyne Court, where he developed his own laboratory.

Having resolved to get an education, he devoted all his spare hours to study until he was nineteen years old.

At the age of 16 he became an apprentice at a local lawyer's office in Norwich but devoted his spare time to studying and drawing insects and, with insect collecting becoming a growing craze, he found he could make a living selling the specimens he found. At this time he became a friend of Simon Wilkin ( 1790 – 1862 ), finally leaving his job and living with Wilkin at Costessey where he undertook systematic insect studies and learned engraving.

For more than 40 years, every moment that Field could spare from his extensive practice was devoted to his codification project.

Until 1933, he devoted his spare time to scholarly pursuits.

An aviation meteorologist, he devoted his spare time and retirement to peaceful activism, promoting the Celtic languages, culture and political autonomy of the Celtic countries.