Sentences with phrase «devoted close study»

For the past 50 years ecologists have devoted close study to movements of exotic species, in an effort to better understand why they go where they do and the impact they have when they arrive.

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With this aim he devoted the sabbatical leave he describes in chapter 1 to the close study of two Protestant churches in a small Georgia town.

The King of Navarre (Alessandro Nivola) and his three closest friends — Berowne (Branagh), Dumaine (Adrian Lester), and Longaville (Matthew Lillard)-- have made an oath to devote three years entirely to study, meaning no «vain delights» such as romance.

However, kissing and nuzzling dying pets can be dangerous, according to a new study — all that close contact puts devoted animal owners at greater risk of contracting life - threatening illnesses like Pasteurella multocida infections.