1.   A worthwhile alternative to becoming a business tycoon is to devote your energies to voluntary work.

2.   All her energies were devoted to appearing in the eyes of others as nonchalant.

3.   Critics of such parental activities argue that activist parents should be devoting their energies to lobbying legislatures to fund all schools adequately.

4.   For the moment, union officials are devoting their energies to the labor dispute at Quincy Farms.

5.   He devoted his energies to writing films.

6.   Instead devote your energies to something that will definitely be successful.

7.   Many said they would rather devote their energies to defeating Clinton than quarreling over the wording in the party platform.

8.   She had started to devote her energies to teaching rather than performing.

9.   But the company later retaliated, suggesting the rival yard should devote its energies to managing its own facilities.

10.   What happened instead was that Milton got caught up in politics and when the Civil War began he devoted his energy to pamphleteering.