Both Secretary of War Baker and Secretary of Navy Daniels devoted much time and effort to the problem of providing reasonably normal and wholesome activities in camp for the millions of men who had been removed from their home environment.

His later boastings of his skill with the small sword are indicative of much time and practice devoted to the use of that weapon.

Sessions devoted to `` Ethics and Foreign Policy Trends '', `` Moral Principle and Political Judgment '', `` Christian Ethics in the Cold War '' and related subjects proved to be much livelier under this procedure than if Catholics were merely talking to themselves.

Although much of the Industrial Division's promotional effort is devoted to securing new locations and expansions by major industries, small business is also afforded considerable attention.

" It concluded by saying, " in the years to come, in the view of the hundreds of thousands of people who are devoted to baseball, and the millions who will be, Abner Doubleday's fame will rest evenly, if not quite as much, upon the fact that he was its inventor ... as upon his brilliant and distinguished career as an officer in the Federal Army.

Thenceforward he became a specialist in marine ichthyology, but devoted much time to the investigation, superintendence and exploitation of mines.

The general impression was that, as much as the senate was packed with men devoted to the royal couple and the government obtained a large majority at the general elections, King Alexander would not hesitate any longer to proclaim Queen Draga's brother as the heir to the throne.

At the lycée in Rennes when he was 15, he led of a group of boys who devoted much time and energy to poking fun at their well-meaning, but obese and incompetent physics teacher, a man named Hébert.

Rav also devoted much attention to mystical and transcendental speculations which the rabbis connect with the Biblical account of creation ( Genesis 1, Ma ' aseh Bereshit ), the vision of the mysterious chariot of God ( Ezekiel 1, Ma ' aseh Merkabah ), and the Divine Name.

This goal, of showing the movement towards unity, explains Bede's animosity towards the British method of calculating Easter: much of the Historia is devoted to a history of the dispute, including the final resolution at the Synod of Whitby in 664.

For the remainder of his life, although he was passionately devoted to Hungary, its people and its culture, he never felt much loyalty to the government or its official establishments.

In the 1903 book titled The Art of Cross-Examination by Francis L. Wellmann much effort is devoted to highlighting components of cross-examination and the impact on trials of the past century.

Petrarch, for example, devoted much time to his Africa, a dactylic hexameter epic on Scipio Africanus, but this work was unappreciated in his time and remains little read today.

Men did twice as many household repairs and about an equal amount of shopping, but they devoted only one-third to one-fourth as much time to cleaning, cooking, and caring for children.

Francis devoted much of his life to missions in Asia, after being appointed by King John III of Portugal to take charge as Apostolic Nuncio in Portuguese India, where the king believed that Christian values were eroding among the Portuguese.

Barnabas is about the same length as the four Canonical gospels put together ( the Italian manuscript has 222 chapters, compared with 16 in Mark ), with the bulk being devoted to an account of Jesus ' ministry, much of it harmonized from accounts also found in the canonical gospels.

Academic economists seem not to have devoted much study on the ( positive ) effect on debtors.

Keller devoted much of her later life to raising funds for the American Foundation for the Blind.

Louis Feldman, who believes the Josephus passage on John is authentic, states that Christian interpolators would have been very unlikely to have devoted almost twice as much space to John ( 163 words ) as to Jesus ( 89 words ).

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 ).

Providing armour support for the initial wave of assault troops was a critical concern for Sea Lion planners and much effort was devoted to finding practical ways of rapidly getting tanks onto the invasion beaches.

In the same section of Chapter 7: Introduction titled " Induction an Inverse Operation ", much more attention is devoted to the principle that multiplication of integers is easy, but finding the ( prime ) factors of the product is much harder.

Lovett called for the establishment of a university " of the highest grade ," " an institution of liberal and technical learning " devoted " quite as much investigation as to instruction.

The rest of the time I devoted to painting or to those other activities a young and healthy man just out of college finds interesting.

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.

Cousin Emma and Cousin Elec, brother and sister -- unmarried, devoted, aging -- had lived next door to the Stubblefields in Tuxapoka from time immemorial until the Stubblefields had moved to Montgomery fifteen years ago.

The monks spent the time not devoted to religious services or study in manual labour.

The primary areas in which the charity is now carrying on programs to achieve its charitable purposes, ranked according to the percentage of time and resources devoted to each program area follow:

A large portion of his time was also devoted to anatomy, which science was regarded by him as the secret of the art.

The primary areas in which the charity is now carrying on programs to achieve its charitable purposes, ranked according to the percentage of time and resources devoted to each program area follow:

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.

Bernard had a great taste for literature and devoted himself for some time to poetry.

Significant amounts of energy and time were devoted to support and foster formal study of the balalaika, from which highly skilled ensemble groups such as the Osipov State Balalaika Orchestra emerged.

Educated as a lawyer, and holding lucrative positions as secretary and counsellor, he seemed, indeed, at one time to have settled down to the practice of law, but following an unexpected summons to Venice, after an absence of several years, he changed his career, and thenceforth he devoted himself to writing plays and managing theatres.

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 great deal of time was devoted to various kinds of manual labour, not unlike the life in monasteries of other rules.

Despite his lack of capital, Newson was determined to be successful and in 1841, at the age of 29, he moved his family and devoted wife again, this time back to Suffolk, where he bought a barley and coal merchants business in Snape, constructing a fine range of buildings for malting barley.

She enjoyed a happy marriage and in later life, devoted time to Alde House and gardening, travelling with younger members of the extended family.

All his time, energy, and resources are now devoted to his case, to the point of detriment to his own life.

In the eighteenth century, slaves became the major source of agricultural labor in the Virginia Colony, then devoted to tobacco plantations.

The largest plantations were devoted first to tobacco, and then mixed farming.

The colonists had plantations devoted to the cultivation of tobacco for export to Sweden.

He devoted himself, instead, to the management of his great plantations in South Carolina and Mississippi, and took part in state politics.

Of the cultivated land, 1, 967 dunams consisted of plantations and irrigable land, and 10, 462 dunams were devoted to cereals.

In addition, because planters devoted large areas of land to plantations for rice and indigo, the white population of the Lowcountry and Sea Islands grew at a slower rate than the black population.

The only other county of the state where the enslaved population was as high in 1860 was New Madrid in the southeast, devoted to cotton plantations along the Mississippi River.

African palm oil plantations replaced all the old banana plantations and, due to its success, more and more land is devoted to grow this palm.

He had given up his medical practice to manage his three plantations, devoted to wheat and other grains, and associated slaves.

Like the other plantations along the James River, Westover was first devoted to the cultivation of tobacco, the major commodity of colonial Tidewater Virginia.

Its rolling hills are planted with different kinds of orchard, where some 500 hectares are devoted solely to mango plantations.

An area of 390. 39 km² ( 65. 17 % of municipal's land area ) is devoted to agricultural crop production, 343. 46 km² of which are coconut plantations.

The mestizos de sangley shifted to the export crop economy by enlarging their plantations devoted to agricultural commodities.