Sentence examples for able to devise and from inspiring English sources

Though we may feel vulnerable, the United States is better able to devise and deploy countermeasures, whether against skyjacking or anthrax or any still-to-be-deployed threat, than any other nation in history.

"When you've finished this book, you will be able to devise and advertise your personal brand, know how to get out of your rut, be able to create a winning plan to increase the volume of men you meet, conduct an exit interview and much more," Greenwald promises.

As the music educator Isaac Stern said: "Not to make 'musicians' out of everyday performers, but more important, to make them educated, alert, caring, inquiring young people, who, by playing music, feel a part of the connective tissue between what the mind of man has been able to devise and the creativity of music... in other words, become literate, and part of the culture of the whole world".

It was first established in 1938 by President Franklin D Roosevelt, who said: "Our nation so richly endowed with natural resources and with a capable and industrious population should be able to devise ways and means of insuring to all our able-bodied working men and women a fair day's pay for a fair day's work".

Using the knowledge and experience he had gained in setting up his holiday camps, Butlin was able to devise activities and systems to boost morale, which led to his appointment as Director General of Hostels.

The interval between the first two fatal days so strongly predicted the momentum of future attacks that the researchers were able to devise an equation, and an accompanying graph, that they could use to estimate the course of hostilities in many situations.

To be able to devise optimum strategies for maintenance and rehabilitation, it is essential to formulate an accurate prediction of pavement life and its maintenance needs.

Now act three is beginning, but in countries much less able to devise measures to stop financial contagion and whose banks are more precarious.

"None of them have been able to devise any methods of going deeper and looking at untested markets," Ravi Trivedy, the former head of banking at the consulting firm KPMG India, said.

In theory, researchers should then be able to devise treatments tailored to these people and their illnesses.

If a player is getting a lot of kills on the opposite team, he's probably working the same angle over and over and you'll easily be able to devise a plan to kill him, perhaps using a flash or smoke grenade that you can now use effectively.