(n.) The state of being devoted; addiction; eager inclination; strong attachment love or affection; zeal; especially, feelings toward God appropriately expressed by acts of worship; devoutness.
(n.) Act of devotedness or devoutness; manifestation of strong attachment; act of worship; prayer.
(n.) Disposal; power of disposal.
(n.) A thing consecrated; an object of devotion.
Example Sentences:
(1) The issue of the Schizophrenia Bulletin is devoted to articles representing this full range of conceptual and empirical work on first-episode psychosis.
(2) The decision of the editors to solicit a review for the Medical Progress series of this journal devoted to current concepts of the renal handling of salt and water is sound in that this important topic in kidney physiology has recently been the object of a number of new, exciting and, in some instances, quite unexpected insights into the mechanisms governing sodium excretion.
(3) Thus, there is still a need for improvement, particularly future research devoted to better understanding of the electrophysiological mechanisms responsible for arrhythmias, electrosurgical and medical arrhythmia therapy, and right and left ventricular mechanics after repair of tetralogy of Fallot.
(4) But none of those calling on Obama to act carries the moral authority of Gore, who has devoted his post-political career to building a climate movement.
(5) Likewise, Merkel's Germany seems to be replicating the same erroneous policy as that of 1930, when a devotion to fiscal orthodoxy plunged the Weimar Republic into mass discontent that fuelled the flames of National Socialism.
(6) Still, there are some aspects of Palin’s channel to recommend it to the devoted movement conservative that isn’t necessarily already a fan of hers – especially its obviating the need to resort to Palinology.
(7) However, as already noted by Albert (1979) this is questionable, as average disease duration and survival have increased in a linear fashion related to the number of publications devoted to this subject from 1950 on.
(8) A section of the paper is devoted to the less common use of Indoklon.
(9) In contrast, corporate support was positively correlated with the number of hours of total work per week, but negatively correlated with the amount of time currently devoted to research.
(10) This explains why this symposium is devoted to NSAIDs and elderly.
(11) I write as someone who has devoted my professional life mainly to other 19th novelists than Dickens.
(12) I came from a strong family and my parents had a devoted marriage, but I experienced the toll breast cancer took on their relationship and their children.
(13) They envisage cuts in farm support payments of more than €150,000 a year, with a cap set at €300,000, in order to devote more subsidy to smaller, family-run farms and ensure a fairer distribution of funds.
(14) During the course of the daily practice of forensic pathology, little or no attention is generally devoted to the tongue (if it is even removed at all during the autopsy examination) except in a handful of relatively well-defined situations.
(15) She devotes countless hours every week to meeting with her lawyer and officials from Russia's Investigative Committee, which raided her flat in early June.
(16) The present research is devoted to the study of the effect of coupling force on bone conduction threshold determination.
(17) 3) Possible mechanisms of directed fibre growth are being elucidated by increasing efforts in research devoted to cell surface molecules, neurotrophic, and inhibitory substances, and their receptors.
(18) The first is devoted to an explanation of a number of notions stemming from work by Ilya Prigogine and others on open systems far from equilibrium.
(19) That's in 1888; by 1890 the tone is of comic resignation (there is much comedy in these pages) as Edmond realises that he has devoted the whole of his life "to a special sort of literature: the sort that brings one trouble".
(20) This introductory overview highlights the issues that are addressed in this Clinics devoted to non-small cell lung cancer.
Juggernaut
Definition:
(n.) One of the names under which Vishnu, in his incarnation as Krishna, is worshiped by the Hindoos.
Example Sentences:
(1) Some of their most cherished objectives, such as parliamentary reform, have been left as roadkill by the juggernauts of Tory and Labour hostility.
(2) The George Bush campaign juggernaut hit the first serious pothole of its cash-fuelled drive to the presidency yesterday, as the Texas governor tried in vain to fend off questions about whether he had used cocaine as a young man.
(3) Nearly £5bn was wiped off the company's stock market value on Thursday after the supermarket juggernaut hit the wall during the peak selling season.
(4) It was a taste of off-grid hippy monasticism inspired by his time at Taliesin West, where each student had to build their own shelter in the desert (a tradition that continues there today), and an embodiment of his underlying motive to “frugalise the frenzied consumerist juggernaut”.
(5) How is that going to change the juggernaut that is this bill in progress?"
(6) Last year's final, when Simon Ambrose was hired, was up against ITV's juggernaut Britain's Got Talent and drew an average of 6.8 million viewers.
(7) Though the Toyota juggernaut may have left the road for now, the firm's name still looms large.
(8) Organised as Isis less than 18 months ago, the group had previously worked hard to cultivate a reputation as an all-powerful juggernaut.
(9) The activities of the BBC 's commercial arm, BBC Worldwide, came in for criticism from rival media companies today, with one executive branding it an "out-of-control juggernaut".
(10) There is a lot of land to be sold to people with cars – and unless it is bought up, this juggernaut of urbanisation could yet stall.
(11) And they are easy targets for the GMP media juggernaut to focus the blame on.” She said she had highlighted problems raised in the report back in 2011 in a letter to the chief constable, Peter Fahy.
(12) But the corporate juggernaut has thundered on, driving the Brussels agenda.
(13) They were the "juggernaut leading the Korean Wave across Asia, the embodiment of the ultra-slick choreography and catchy pop songs that earned K-pop its reputation", says Robert Poole, chief executive of SomethingDrastic, a Tokyo-based Asian music promoter.
(14) "It's time to help create vibrant, local economies – even if that means standing in the way of the global corporate juggernauts."
(15) Sadly, such hard-headed thinking is at odds with the political desire to keep the reform juggernaut motoring onwards at all costs.
(16) Well they certainly did look more like the juggernaut they were in the first half of the season, but that was just one game and the Atlanta Hawks looked like their regular seasons selves, the ones who only accidentally made the playoffs because the New York Knicks were especially New York Knicks-y this season.
(17) However, his campaign faces bigger obstacles in the meantime as it struggles to combat the Clinton juggernaut.
(18) If Bosh is racking up his fair share of points and rebounds, the Heat are an unstoppable offensive juggernaut.
(19) "The medium has grown up, and now the GTA franchise is a giant juggernaut that appears to be punching down instead of up," says female games journalist Leigh Alexander.
(20) Backing for the president in Northampton County, Pennsylvania , a former industrial juggernaut which voted for Barack Obama twice before falling for Trump in 2016, appeared to be healthy, three months in.