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If the state owns the land, how does it decide how much land to devote to development?

One way would be to devote a percentage of any oil output recovered from current lows into a fund for the development of the region.

Songwriter Elvis L. Carden, decided to devote the design of his house to his greatest passion: music.

Each of you have so much talent, and with so much time to yourself in the future will be able to devote as much to it as you wish.

The plan was to devote roughly half of two Evening News programs to extensive recapitulations of all that was known about Watergate.

How much of its output should a society wish to devote to fending off once in 50 or 100-year crises?

How much money can you afford to devote to learning English.

Consequently, he works hard day and night and is thus not able to devote any of his time to her.

His speech is magnificent and majestic, he has a clear mind and a good sense of humor, and he is ready to devote his time and talents.

When a man feels admired, he feels secure enough to devote himself to his woman and adore her.

Part of that excitement surely comes from knowing he will now have more time to devote to his wife, Steffi Graf, and their two children.

It is often when we have the least free time or energy to devote to joy that we need to unwind and enjoy ourselves the most.

He was the son of a well-to-do tradesman, had been to college in London, and was to devote himself to business.

But she says the United States is ready to devote the time to build understanding and act to bring justice to all.

But I am good at learning new knowledge, and work with a high sense of responsibility, able to devote to devote.

A hot tip for winning the presidency in 2007, he is now handing his ministry over to his wife in order to devote himself to politics.

Think about how much time you have to devote to volunteering.

Even though her training meant that she had to live apart from her parents, she was happy to devote herself to gymnastics.

It was not a congenial experience and in 1961 he retired to Switzerland with his wife to devote himself to his books.

But staff eventually complained that so much time was being given over to measurement that there was little left to devote to customers.

The number of days you lift will depend on how much time you have to devote to exercise.

As summer holiday is around the corner, a great number of children will have to devote themselves into cram schools.

Make sure that you know exactly what you're committing yourself to and how much time you're agreeing to devote to the activity.

It is not always easy to devote time for your spouse, Pastor Young admitted.

The rest of the day is yours to do with as you wish - and you may wish to devote it to thought.

With so much else on the agenda in London, it is not clear how much time the Group of 20 will be able to devote to trade.

St Lucy as a young girl decided to devote her life to Christ and refused to marry the groom selected by her mother.

But although I found it easy to learn this subject, I did not feel that I wished to devote my whole life to it.

After these years of study, I decided to devote all my life to Computer Science and would like to apply for Ph.

How much money can you afford to devote to repaying debt?

There has always been a tendency for financial institutions to devote more attention to product innovation than to risk management.

Guo viewed flies as his mortal enemy and decided to devote the rest of his life to the eradication of the bothersome insects.

Now that her opposition was out of the way, he had all of his time to devote to the consideration of his own error.

I don't think it worthwhile to devote so much time to discussing the matter.

But Parks officials say they do not plan to devote a great deal of resources to issuing tickets.

I think I'm ready, to devote my life for higher purpose, service others. . .

A slow atmosphere as you reach month's end will allow you to devote your time to your one true love.

So he took his resolve: to devote himself to M. Madeleine .

But for much of his working life, he has set aside his enthusiasm for physics to devote himself to a career in administration.

After he graduated , he continued to devote himself to the research .

To a person, the adapters say they are willing to devote long hours to this effort out of a love for American popular culture.

Gates will remain chairman and work with Microsoft on special projects, but wants to devote his time to philanthropic work with his wife.

So far, few teachers are at work. The salary of teachers is less. They work harder. But I still decide to devote myself to the education.

It is not wise for a young man to expect only to be rich, nor is it good for him to devote his efforts solely to power and fame.

They pledged to devote at least 50 percent of ads directed at kids to choices that are considered "better for you. "

The house feels cleaner and more spacious now, and I don't have to devote as much time to cleaning as I used to.

Winston decided to devote himself to the movement of reforming this society even it finally resulted in cruel torture and death.

If I get u, I assure to devote my life into treasuring u; if not, I just complain about what I didn't do well.

I've got to devote even more time to help Chinese students master English!

A company with internal dissension is drained of energy before it has a chance to devote itself to its proper purpose .

Unfortunately, this is another area to which we were unable to devote more effort.

After he graduated he continued to devote himself to research.

He added: "Because we have so little time, we have to be able to devote our time to the things that will make a difference. "

After that he continued to devote himself to the research work.

Being able to devote more energy, concentration and flow to an activity is the primary goal of energy management.

After that, he continued to devote himself to research work.

The Delegation thought that it was important that WIPO continued to devote substantial funding for those activities in the future .

They were still learning programming, but had already made a conscious decision to devote their skills to virus writing.

He is determined to devote himself to the cause of education. He is determined to be devoted o the cause of education.

In the past , many fruit growers have made it a practice to devote full time to raising only one fruit such as apples .

Now the national broadcast networks will agree to devote only a few hours to prime-time coverage of today's much less gripping conventions.

One disadvantage of being young and ambitious was that both of them needed to devote untold hours to their busy schedules.

No matter how great Kobe is, can a team count on him to devote himself to the greater good?

With its i Drive system, it allows you to devote more of your attention to the road.

Companies need to devote as much thought to the chemistry between the boss and chairman as they do to getting the structure right.

Most scientists all over the world interrupted their fundamental research to devote their talents to the technology of warfare .

With direction like this he was free to devote his attention to executing the details of the brief in the best way he knew how.

My topic is nature harmonious and hope From remote antiquity, nature began to devote itself to us.

Remember, I only invited the boy at your bidding. I expect you to devote some of your time to entertaining him.

Miracle happened, because children excessively, eager to devote themselves to pull out of the hand of the waiter, walked slowly.

It might help to devote some time to go through the "About Us" section on the company's Web site.

Advocates for the poor want the companies building the data highway to devote a portion of their profits to insuring universal access.

B: Some people prefer to devote all their energy to their career or to pursue their own interests and travel.

Deeply moved by Zu Ti's patriotic passion, Liu Kun was determined to devote himself to his homeland.

He decided to leave the life insurance business to devote his time to designing and building golf courses.

No one can deny your excellence outside academic circle. Hopefully you are able to devote yourself in your loved and adept enterprise.

Obi-Wan had left the Jedi Order in order to devote himself to a cause on a planet they had tried to save.

The one year experience was just a start. I'm willing and hoping to devote myself to them.

It might sound weird to devote a whole step to cutting out a section of the image. . .

Often in dormitories , meals might be provided , and this can allow students to devote time to their academics, rather than housekeeping.

I know it's weird to devote a whole post to this topic, it's not like I'm promoting some illicit site either, but I just can't stop myself.

and by 1748, at the age of 42, he was able to retire from business to devote his life to public service and the study of science.

Caroline began to devote more care to her work.

So we've decided to devote this program today to families and the things that we keep secret and how that affects our lives.

The transition will give Hurley, a designer, more time to devote to another of his business ideas, the men's clothing line Hlaska.

Went on, and eventually decided to devote myself, full time, to that.

A Dream in Red Mansions is one kind of novel , he uses self and revise to come to devote to in his writing persistent stamina.

I propose to devote the remainder of mine to it, and can only regret the wasted years that lie behind me, squandered in trivialities.

Mr. Reed made up his mind to devote all he had to setting up some schools for poor children.

Generally speaking, countries that are wealthier tend to devote greater societal resources to domestic environmental preservation.

In 2001, in Abuja, Nigeria, African heads of state pledged to devote at least 15% of national budgets to the health sector.

Today, Fuyou people are daring and energetic to devote into the cause of developing PP environmental study and office supplies.

The White House responded by promising to devote a further $4 billion to it.

But it is quite another thing to educate the spirit for the higher life and to devote our energies to its service.

He then decided to devote himself to other research.

I began to devote more of my time to animal welfare work.

I propose to devote the remainder of mine to it, and can only regret the wasted years, squandered in trivialities.

A practicable program is to devote major efforts to developing small and medium-sized enterprises in macro-development strategic level.

To do this, we must establish a firm faith in our actions and be ready to devote ourselves to them.

You want to devote your body, i have no idea, but i have right to refuse it.

More importantly, they must BE politically sensitive and willing to devote themselves to society and the country.

It would require us to devote all our law enforcement resources to that task; many of these families have children who are U. S. citizens.

i always love my job and enjoy it , i would like to devote all my enthusiasm and knowledge to this highly developing industry.

They can admire the essential decency that has led him to devote much of his time to finding charitable ways to spend his money.

My mother started off as a film actress, but after marriage, he became a housewife, because she wanted to devote herself to her family.

Massie then takes the curious decision to devote many pages to Anna Anderson, the woman who claimed to be Anastasia, and other impostors.

If I gain your appreciation, I will make efforts with my knowledge and ability to devote myself entirely to your company.

As Leia was Chief of State of the New Republic, she rarely had time to devote to family, though she made every possible effort.

however, if they have a strong demand for the material satisfaction, they prefer to devote to the commercial-oriented creative work.

It voted not to devote time to the teaching of theories based on the existence of a creative intelligence.

It is not obligatory for directors to devote continuous attention to the affairs of the company.

He also explains why he chose to devote his life to one of the smallest creatures on Earth.

She's quit her job as a dental-office manager, for now, to devote herself full time to her cause.

"I am keen to devote my graduate studies to cutting-edge research, " he said.

To be a true follower of Christ, he had to devote his life to serving others.

He's spreading himself too thin and, as a result, isn't able to devote much time to either of his jobs.

Starting this week , I'm going to devote several hours every weekday to developing new information products .

As a result, he says residents and local governments have been able to devote greater attention to infrastructure and employment needs.

I don't need any salary! Please give me a chance to devote my life to your holly career!

But, it seems, people are still willing to devote a lot of resources to rainmaking in drought-prone areas, even when results are debatable.

Encourage employees to devote themselves to the organizational development.

Dares to devote that firm and unyielding, studies assiduously with the attendance in the practice, is inventor's basic quality.

That could undercut the iPad app by reducing the incentive to devote resources to it.

Hackers are persistent, and are willing to devote hours, days and years to pursuing their individual passions.

Diversification requires the corporation to devote themselves to the enlargement and development in every field of their management.

Sergey has decided to devote his time and energy to strategic projects, in particular working on new products.

Mondays also are frequently filled with meetings, and that can decrease the amount of time you have to devote to your regular tasks.

Then I wanted to devote the rest of my life to public service.

Of course, you don't have to devote all your time at university to studying computers and nothing else.

But whenever he chopped, wounds of the tree would heal simultaneously, so he had to devote all his life to chopping in the Moon Palace.

After graduation he started to devote himself to science research .

I'm glad to devote myself to the construction of our motherland.

In the early 20th century the people began to devote using the laser to achieve optical rotation method.

After college, she quit her first job after two months to devote herself full-time to her Taobao store.

When you are happy and have energy you will have more love and energy to devote to your children and that will help them everyday.

These doctors are determined to devote themselves to finding a new cure for cancer of the lung.

Sony and Samsung are committed to organic LED (OLED) display business to devote more of consumer applications.

With only a caretaker government, its ministers had lots of time to devote to EU business.

China is also expected to agree to devote additional resources to enforcing intellectual property rules.

Most people do not have enough time to devote to activities that are truly important in life, like taking care of their loved ones.

Up until a few months before, I had wanted to devote my future studies to music.

Be sure to devote the most time to the parts of the exam that net the most points.

We are removing support for some file types to allow us to devote more of our efforts towards the file formats that are being used.

Longyuan plans to devote all $2 billion or so it raises in its offering to construction and debt repayment.

you decided to learn a new language, you would have to devote all your efforts If to it.

That's why I'm determined to devote all my life to real education!

Handle affairs the full of intense emotion and imagination, the efficiency is very high, working feeling to devote one's mind specially.

He wanted to devote himself to abstract research.

When I was young, he was used to devote a deep and long pray in the morning towards Buddha Hall before breakfast.

I've got to devote even more time to helping students master oral English! We can do it.

I decided to devote myself to exam preparation and didn't have time to chat online with Dennis.

incentives destroys motivations that stem from one' s inner dignity to devote energy to a specific task.

China, in contrast, will have more resources to devote to teaching fewer children.

It was good of you, dear Newland, to devote yourself so unselfishly to Madame Olenska.

After all, strong and wealthy states can afford to devote a lot of resources to analyzing important foreign-policy problems.

this means the small company managers themselves have to devote more time and energy to recruitment.

And Capricorn is too work-oriented to devote enough time to the relationship that Libra so desperately needs.

Be able to devote time to family and other personal activities.

We are determined to devote ourselves to the cause of education.

I solemnly pledge myself to devote my life to the service of humanity.

Feel free to devote several sessions over a period of days to this practice.

Students are the core of our future and we are in a crucial period when we have to devote more of our attention and energy to them.

Gates , who made his fortune through developing computer software, plans to devote his time to charity work.

As know as I am an optimistic and sanguine person, so I am willing to devote the public affairs.

I am not advising you to devote all your time to exercise. What I want to say is that exercise is as useful and important as your study.

The server has substantial resources to devote to maintaining state.

If one claims that I am willing to devote everything to you, but aiming at nothing.

He loves drawing since small, which is why he decided to devote to art.

Are you one of those people who complain that you don't have the time, money or some other resource to devote to such things?

once put into action, I do not want anything, just want to devote himself to do.

We would like to devote our lives to maintaining territorial integrity.

Because in my heart i love them so much. . . i would like to devote everything for them.

The Delegation emphasized the importance for WIPO to continue to devote sufficient funds to these activities in the future.

That leaves a smaller pool of human intellect to devote to productive innovation.

Students ought to devote their time to the acquisition of knowledge.

Look at your schedule and determine where you're going to fit in the time to devote to this new activity.

He decided to devote his life to the religion.

Oftentimes, you might want to devote a varying amount of screen space to some part of your applications GUI.

He is to devote to calculate to reception down all matters as her fare, defend her person.

The constitution requires the government to devote one-fifth of its spending to education.

Machines also liberate the teacher from routine work and enable him to devote time to more creative work. . .

It is smart of Granta, a magazine of new writing, to devote its autumn issue to Pakistan.

If not, simply explain to the client that you have too many projects going to devote the time necessary for their project.

Discussing life after City Hall, Mr Bloomberg says he expects to devote his time to giving away his fortune.

You have to devote internal resources to verify that third parties using your platform are viable and legitimate.

I would like to devote myself in this industry in the future and contribute myself to it.

It prefers to devote its resources to education, ecotourism.

Everyone talks about the benefits of yoga, but who has time to devote to it?

These retired men are content to devote their remaining energy here.

I promise to devote my all to keep our love afloat with perseverance and restraint.

Subtracting this figure from your total income will give you the amount you now have to devote to reducing your debt.

From a traditional viewpoint, woman will come home eventually. So it is reasonal for woman to devote herself to family.

Readers, how did you decide what tasks you wanted to devote the most time to when preparing for a new child?

It will hire the best buyable minds to devote their whole time to presenting its case.

Despite our huge fiscal deficit, we will continue to devote enormous resources to education.

Probably he has to devote himself more diligently to his studies.

As for myself, I will take the responsibility to devote myself to sustainable development.

Don't worry though, I am a perfectionist enough to devote the necessary time to my projects.

devote sth to sth We are expected to devote all our energy and youth to globalization.

We are determined to devote ourselves to this cause.

Some developers have an obsession with performance issues, leading them to devote a lot of efforts to presumed optimizations.

I love English and hope to devote myself to this career.

They continue to devote scarce aid dollars to the microlenders that need them least.

He'll live in Vatican city in a small monastery and Benedict is expected to devote his time to prayer and study.

The senators are supposed to devote on a roughly 800 billion dollars stimulus package, but the job is not over yet.

According to David Rowe, this means that small company managers themselves have to devote more time and energy to recruitment.

We shall continue to devote our best efforts to fund-raising in order to support the University's development.

I'm going to devote half a class to sleeping and dreams.

It is aside from our present aims to devote too much time to this question.

That is why we chose to devote the lion's share of this issue of Scientific American to the theme of endings.

We intend to devote all our time and energy to protecting the fundamental civil liberties on the net and elsewhere.

Theconstitution requires the government to devote one-fifth of its spending to education.

If my arguments above convince you, you ought to devote that time to researching potential global brands among emerging-market stocks.

But instead of using the time to master Swedish or calculus, we often choose to devote it to the utterly banal.

Education is like reading, we need to devote the whole lifetime to do!

We call on all nations and all people to devote their attention to the great danger inherent in Islamic fundamentalism.

However, others onthe team may have more time to devote to the task, and will benefit from theexperience and responsibility.

He wanted to devote his energies to writing for films.

I'd like to devote my cherished youth to you.

This is a 911 project and you must be able to devote the required time ASAP to complete this project in 14 days or less.

His heroic act has attracted even more people to devote themselves to swimming.

"When I stop working at G. M. , I am going to devote myself to the house, making it look as pristine as possible, " Mr. Kirkland said.

Executives sit on as many as five such panels and are expected to devote a third of their time to them.

In addition, faculty members must have a driving passion toward their research and be willing to devote a Herculean effort over many years.

I have to devote part of my income to paying my debts.

The Government would also need to devote resources to implementing and enforcing the mandatory requirement.

But we feel that nowadays the true "luxury" is having space and time to devote.

Like many wealthy Chinese business leaders, Ms Zhang has also started to devote attention to philanthropy.

In the party, Chairman Tsao (middle) encouraged all MJs from top to bottom to devote to the future with Group.

But the Microsoft co-founder has left the stage to devote his life and fortune to good works.

In order to devote himself on guitar, Paganini had abandoned the open violin recital activities for several years.

Countries have agreed to devote 60% of the remaining time to those discussions.

We've made up our minds to devote our lives to serving the people heart and soul .

The secret to being happy is simply to devote more of our time and attention to these happiness-rich and fulfilling experiences.

You are loyal to love, and are willing to devote for love.

And if I want to be a computer programmer in the future, I need to devote more time on it.

How far they will want to devote taxpayers' equity to far-off trade finance is another question.

The enterprise of the future will need to devote a lot of time and energy toward integrating the useful information it has.

Reserve blocks of times to devote your complete attention to things you need to get done, your kids, your spouse, your driving!

He left the army to devote more time to his family.

She always has readiness to devote her time and energies to making friends on the net.

"refined elegance, to devote to" we will never promise.

Well, I am sure you have noticed a lot of guest posts and that is due to the fact that I have had absolutely NO time to devote to the blog.

It's wrong to devote yourself only to amusement.

These youth will to devote much time to serve old people.

I hope these tips help and you don't feel like you have to devote hours and hours to eating a healthy diet.

If you want to cure it is necessary to devote much effort.

In addition, you have to devote all the energy to the educational career.

I am willing to devote my life to education career.

Just because I belong to Software College of Tongji University , I am willing to devote all myself to the software career of China .