Examples of using Were devoted in English and their translations into Russian
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Many years were devoted to work at the Department by.
Feature films and documentaries were devoted to her.
The very first studies were devoted to synthetically non-degradable matrices.
The holy altar tables of the Winter Palace and of chief state institutions were devoted to the Vernicle Image of the Saviour.
Special courts were devoted to the protection of civil and criminal rights together.
Paragraphs 32-41 of the report were devoted to that definition.
Some episodes were devoted exclusively to the problems of women in rural areas.
In addition, two programmes in the"World Chronicle" series were devoted to the International Year.
The remaining rooms were devoted to diathermy, which was very popular at that time.
Forty-nine per cent of total professional work-months utilized in the 1996-1997 biennium were devoted to such assistance.
Specific events were devoted to gender equality.
It would also be interesting to know what strategies and programmes had been put in place to tackle the debt burden,since 22.5 per cent of public revenues in 2012 were devoted to debt servicing.
A total of 20 General Assembly meetings were devoted to Israel at the fifty-eighth session.
The early issues were devoted to explaining the Basic Agreement, the Security Council resolutions and the UNTAES mandate.
In 1992, this agency allocated 7 per cent of its resources to health programmes, andmost of the projects in that area were devoted to the construction of clinics and improvements to and/or expansion of health centres.
The proceedings were devoted to draft legislative texts envisaged in the Linas-Marcoussis Agreement.
The claim is valued on the basis of the salaries paid to employees for its estimate of the man-hours that, absent Iraq's invasion and occupation of Kuwait,would have been devoted to research activities but which, in fact, were devoted to the above tasks, and of KISR's operating costs for the first year following liberation.
Four days of the workshop were devoted to lectures, group exercises, focus group discussion, and role playing.
Major efforts were devoted to the receipt and inspection of 965 incoming shipments(comprising 460 tonnes, with a value of some $27.6 million); the identification, codification, classification and categorization of all items received; their preservation and placement in storage for reissue as required; and the technical inspection of equipment and performance of maintenance and repair as necessary.
The bulk of the Department's resources were devoted to the production of quantifiable outputs.
The days were devoted to meditating and attending lectures by the Maharishi, who spoke from a flower-bedecked platform in an auditorium.
A total of 44 per cent of work-months were devoted to the production of quantifiable outputs.
Long hours were devoted to reviewing recommendations and supporting analysis that we knew would be subject to scrutiny and interpretation.
In 1981, Israel destroyed Iraq's nuclear facilities, which were devoted to peaceful purposes; nonetheless, Israel has escaped any punishment.
Two talk shows were devoted to fight against stereotypes in respect of Roma people on the first channel of the National Television in 2002.
About one third of UNFPA resources for Africa were devoted to maternal and child health and family planning(MCH/FP) programmes.
The other meetings were devoted primarily to the implementation programme, especially the development of compilation guidance.
Similarly, a World Bank reportstates that over the last decade, one fifth of total humanitarian aid flows were devoted to disaster relief and response, while the share of humanitarian funding for prevention was increasing rapidly from about 0.1 per cent to 0.7 per cent, but is still tiny.
The debates were devoted to the foreign companies' perception of Russian assets and investments into Russian economy in the current macro-economic situation.
At the fifty-ninth session, 15 plenary meetings were devoted to the general debate A/59/PV.3-17, during which 192 speakers took the floor.