• Carter graduated from college in 2010 and has devoted himself full-time to his nonprofit.

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  • Yet, Chen has risen from poverty, and devoted himself to help disabled people gain legal protection.

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  • Married to a widow, Martha Dandridge Custis, he devoted himself to a busy and happy life.

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  • Had Mr Hutton devoted himself to extolling Europe's virtues, and explaining how its current flaws could be cured, he might have produced an interesting book.

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  • From his heroic service in Vietnam to his years as prosecutor and lieutenant governor, through two decades in the United States Senate, he has devoted himself to this country.

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  • He devoted himself between the wars to restoring Mozart to his rightful Olympian status, after he had been dismissed by wild-eyed 19th-century romantics who considered him lightweight and effete.

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  • Nor was it ever established precisely why this boy had devoted himself to the goal of being able to press his lips to every square inch of his own body.

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  • All of which led to enormous speculation about what these two popes might have said to one another after making history together: Benedict's surprise resignation paved the way for the first pope from Latin America, the first Jesuit, and the first to call himself Francis after the 13th century friar who devoted himself to the poor, nature and working for peace.

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