• 's transient population isn't as devoted to its teams as fans in other cities are to theirs.

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  • England were without the dependable catching attributes of Andrew Strauss, who had left the ground to take up his other role as devoted husband to wife Ruth, who was giving birth to their second child.

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  • Mass leisure will also create other kinds of jobs, such as those devoted to entertaining and informing each other.

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  • For prompting creativity, few things are as important as time devoted to cross-pollination with fields outside our areas of expertise.

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  • "I'm here to be the skunk at your garden party, " Grove said, noting wryly that his remarks coincidentally fell on the same day as one devoted to promoting nationwide screening for psychological depression.

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  • First, we learned to define the concept of branding, and then companies began branding themselves as they devoted positions to the practice.

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  • As much of the ensuing debate seemed to be devoted to who was to blame as to the basic issue itself.

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  • As the sums devoted to commodities have grown, so have complaints about the damage that speculative cash causes.

    ECONOMIST: The charge-sheet against commodity speculators is flimsy

  • Friends and family described them as "devoted" to Stephen and said they "would have done anything for him".

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  • He described her as a person devoted to her family and said there had been "no animosity" between his client and her brother.

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  • "Over the last few years as I have devoted increased time to public service and as our worldwide business has grown in complexity, the need to expand the range of advice provided by our board has become more evident, " Bloomberg said in a prepared statement.

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  • Lt Cdr Molyneux's widow Gillian described her husband as "utterly devoted" to his four children.

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  • Zweig portrayed himself as an idealist, devoted to the cause of international brotherhood.

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  • All programmes on Radio Five Live - except the news programme Up All Night - will remain available only in the UK as they will be devoted to the games.

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  • BET, treasured by some as the only channel devoted to black entertainment, is trashed by others for a lack of social conscience, a surfeit of crude comedy and a predilection for music videos rife with flashy cars, quivering cleavage and gyrating hips.

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  • Indians, once fixed in the American mind's eye as bands of howling savages bent on doing no good to John Wayne, are nowadays more often seen as the devoted children of Mother Earth, determined to preserve the planet for future generations.

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  • He missed the nuances about genetic engineering applied to agriculture and food production and as is his wont, devoted ample ink to the anti-biotech crowd, including the Pew Initiative on Food and Biotechnology (which Pollack described only as a "nonprofit group, " although "doctrinaire anti-biotechnology lobbyists" would have been more accurate) and the radical, notoriously mendacious Friends of the Earth.

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  • They have moved into the tech magazines' territory, increasing their technology coverage substantially and have launched technology supplements. (The Economist, too, plans a quarterly supplement for later this year.) The danger for the tech magazines is that they may fall victim to exactly what they so often predict: as technology becomes ubiquitous, magazines devoted solely to that field will find themselves obsolete.

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  • After Andrew contended with lymphoma, he developed broader interests, such as working with a foundation devoted to lymphoma research.

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  • Today, Eli Broad and his wife, Edythe, are devoted to philanthropy as founders of The Broad Foundations, which they established to advance entrepreneurship for the public good in education, science and the arts.

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  • The museum contains a room dedicated to the Emirati woman poet Ousha Bint Khalifa -- known as the Girl of Arabia, a gallery devoted to temporary art exhibitions, a collection of Arabian fragrances and oils, traditional jewelery and a women's study center.

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  • Remarkably, Rabbi Ellenson has devoted his career as a historian to the study of Orthodox responses to modernity.

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  • Eco Fashion Week was launched in 2009 as a non-profit organization devoted to spreading seeds of change for sustainable manufacturing in the fashion industry.

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  • Believe it or not, the U.S. Army used to contain a special unit that was devoted exclusively to the use of psychic power as a tool of war.

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  • Your data will remain as anonymous as it can be on a site devoted to broadcasting your every move.

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  • These range from popular preschool programs such as Sesame Street to entire cable channels devoted to history and science.

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  • Even so, as banks reduce the share of products devoted to loans, some firms could be left scrambling for credit.

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  • According to Engel's law, first formulated by the 19th-century statistician Ernst Engel, the proportion spent on necessities falls as wealth increases, and the share devoted to luxuries rises.

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  • There is almost no time devoted on the daily shows as to why stocks might actually offer good value and be where you should be placing your money.

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  • Battlefield 2 performed particularly well on Steam, as EA specifically devoted a lot of resources to make PC players happy, unlike other publishers who simply port a title from console to PC with little thought for extra tools or features.

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