Sentence examples for a device for creating from inspiring English sources

A firm is essentially a device for creating long-term contracts when short-term contracts are too bothersome.

Some social scientists use the concept of social structure as a device for creating an order for the various aspects of social life.

Instead, Wiltschko discovered that if he put the robins in cages equipped with a Helmholtz coil — a device for creating a uniform magnetic field — the birds would change their orientation when he switched the direction of north.

Although critics called the WPA an extension of the dole or a device for creating a huge patronage army loyal to the Democratic Party, the stated purpose of the program was to provide useful work for millions of victims of the Great Depression and thus to preserve their skills and self-respect.

The Internet is a great device for creating new markets, democratizing knowledge, and increasing competition.

The catalog was constructed using Rejewski's "cyclometer", a special-purpose device for creating a catalog of permutations.

To most readers it will be sheer counterintuitive dazzle, as if to propose that a chicken is the egg's device for creating other eggs.

So iPad becomes a device for them to create and not just consume content".

Designed as a refuge from the city's oppressive heat, some of its best features are devices for creating cooling breezes and shade.

King is big on such warm-ups and warm-downs in his tales -- old-fashioned devices for creating atmosphere that most contemporary writers avoid in the interest of tight focus and compression.

Quantifiers are not simply devices for creating schemata like 'Every S is P', into which general terms like 'politician' and 'deceitful' can be inserted.