But the Uruguayan leader, a doctor by training,lamented that Latin American governments are devoting growing resources to armaments rather than dealing with pressing social needs including health and education.

VOA: standard.2009.09.15

I can only imagine though, at this point in the semester, what will become Milton's eventual championing of marriage is pretty hard to imagine, in part because we're just devoting our second class to a literary work given almost entirely to the virtue of chastity.

然而我只能认为，在学期的这个时候，什么将成为弥尔顿婚姻的最终捍卫者,一定难以想象，一部分是因为,我们的第二节课一直在讨论,关于贞洁的美德的作品。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

The economy needs help. But rather than stimulating the economy by providing an improved incentives to work and invest, we have been devoting trillions of dollars in taxpayer money to expanding and creating permanent long-term government spending programs and income-redistribution mechanisms,".

VOA: standard.2009.04.03