(n.) The act of setting apart or consecrating to a divine Being, or to a sacred use, often with religious solemnities; solemn appropriation; as, the dedication of Solomon's temple.
(n.) A devoting or setting aside for any particular purpose; as, a dedication of lands to public use.
(n.) An address to a patron or friend, prefixed to a book, testifying respect, and often recommending the work to his special protection and favor.
Example Sentences:
(1) A dedicated goal makes a big difference in mobilising action and resources.
(2) His dedication and professionalism is world class and he deserves all the recognition he has received to date.
(3) Giving voice to that sentiment the mass-selling daily newspaper Ta Nea dedicated its front-page editorial to what it hoped would soon be the group's demise, describing Alexopoulos' desertion as a "positive development".
(4) This can only be achieved by a well prepared and equipped team dedicated to provision of this care.
(5) The fashion in Hollywood leading men now is for the sort of sculpted torso that requires months, if not years, of dedicated abdominal crunching.
(6) Arvind Kejriwal, leader of a new populist political party "dedicated to improving the lot of the common man", announced on Monday that he would form a government to run the sprawling, troubled and increasingly wealthy city of 15 million people.
(7) The authors document the first 19 months of a service dedicated to the care of hopelessly ill patients in a teaching hospital.
(8) Patronage at the airport in the early years would not justify a dedicated rail link.
(9) Fried, reports Variety, has now retired to Florida, but the director tracked her down and rewarded her with a dedication in the soon-to-be-published coffee table making-of book, as well as couple of cameos.
(10) Dedicate it to the off-the-cuff remark – the gaffe, even – which averts a war.
(11) This communication deals with Leidy's life, his philosophy, and his unique dedication to the study of nature.
(12) What we do know is that we cannot and will not see this decision as a vote of no confidence, and that we will find a way to continue through our own passion and dedication to making theatre that represents the dispossessed, tells stories of the injustices of our world and changes lives.
(13) The second phase (1960-1980) was dedicated to a deeper understanding of the relationship between the course of therapy and its results.
(14) The Brookhaven National Laboratory X-ray microprobe, facilities dedicated to X-ray fluorescence, and related analytical techniques are discussed.
(15) The Peppers like to be jerks (at Dingwalls Swan dedicated a song to “all you whiney Britishers who can suck my American cock”), but don’t let the surface attitude fool you.
(16) A whole website ( nicecupofteaandasitdown.com ) is now dedicated to choosing the best biscuit for the job.
(17) The fight against Britain's biggest killer diseases could be hit by NHS plans to cut the number of dedicated teams of experts widely lauded for their work to improve care, doctors and health charities have warned.
(18) She insists she has no regrets about dedicating herself to the man millions admired but few really got to know.
(19) In the late 1990s, after airlines were roundly criticized for ignoring desperate requests for information after crashes, Congress required carriers to dedicate significant attention to families of passengers.
(20) The bank told staff that sales of such products are driven by “trigger points” in customer lives and that it was no longer economical to have a dedicated network of advisers selling critical illness and income protection products.
Inauguration
Definition:
(n.) The act of inuagurating, or inducting into office with solemnity; investiture by appropriate ceremonies.
(n.) The formal beginning or initiation of any movement, course of action, etc.; as, the inauguration of a new system, a new condition, etc.
Example Sentences:
(1) We carried English prestige into the inaugural season of the Europa League, taking Atlético Madrid into extra time in the final and within five minutes of a penalty shootout.
(2) President Obama's daughters, Sasha and Malia, took selfies at his second inauguration .
(3) Sam Mugumya, an aide to the opposition leader, suggested the government might have been anxious to prevent Besigye disrupting the inauguration.
(4) In our play 2071 , which recently completed its inaugural run at the Royal Court theatre in London, directed by Katie Mitchell, we explore the science, its implications and the options before us.
(5) It is an eerily apposite image from the year the outbreak of the Spanish civil war inaugurated a new age of slaughter.
(6) Controversial BBC 6 Music DJ George Lamb, who provoked a listener backlash among some sections of the station's audience, was last night crowned the Sony Radio Academy Awards inaugural "rising star".
(7) March The newly inaugurated US president, Barack Obama, announces the withdrawal of 12,000 US troops by the end of August 2010.
(8) The men's trial is due to start in a week, in a new fast-track court inaugurated last week specifically to deal with sexual violence against women.
(9) Hours later, Nixon called in his CIA chief, Richard Helms, and, according to Helms's handwritten notes, ordered the CIA to prevent Allende's inauguration.
(10) This is, admittedly, a difficult area for David Cameron, who, when questioned by David Letterman on US TV in 2012, was unable to say that Magna Carta simply meant great charter, but perhaps we should overlook this fairly amazing gaffe (for an Oxford-educated prime minister) and encourage him to inaugurate a national movement of political renewal with the charter as the context and inspiration.
(11) But there is little doubt that Petry has inaugurated a new era for the AfD.
(12) The president, after blasting fat cats and the self-interest of Wall Street for years, has made a landmark move in his relationship with companies: he is taking corporate donations to fund the parade and parties of his second inauguration.
(13) The eight people in the dock had been arrested following clashes between protesters and riot police at Bolotnaya Square in Moscow on 6 May 2012, the eve of Vladimir Putin's third inauguration as Russian president.
(14) With the help of the method of the kinetocardiography (KKG) inaugurated by Eddleman and the displacement cardiography (DKG) using a high fidelity changer, apart from a control group of 12 test persons with healthy heart 8 different groups of cardiac abnormalities consisting of altogether 88 patients were examined.
(15) Bath-shaped recession If viewed huffily by his own peers, Sorrell is feted elsewhere, with invitations to the Obama inauguration and to the World Economic Forum in Davos.
(16) Since Petro Poroshenko was inaugurated in Ukraine a week ago after winning last month's presidential election, there has been some hope that the two sides might be able to find a common language.
(17) Trump, on his inaugural foreign tour, which has also taken in stops in Saudi Arabia and Israel, has a lunch date with the newly elected French president, Emmanuel Macron, in Brussels.
(18) "The inauguration address was poetry, and now people are looking for some prose," said Alden Meyer, policy director at the Union of Concerned Scientists.
(19) However Modi surprised observers last week by inviting Nawaz Sharif, the prime minister of Pakistan, to his inauguration ceremony.
(20) The full text of Donald Trump's inauguration speech Read more Trump has little if any of Buchanan’s sense of history.