Sentence examples for act was devised to from inspiring English sources

Thus I defend myself with Winston Churchill's words: "The Official Secrets Act was devised to protect the national defence … and ought not to be used to shield ministers who have a strong personal interest in concealing the truth".

In April, Singapore's Parliament responded to the SARS outbreak by amending its 27-year-old Infectious Diseases Act, which was devised to combat endemic illnesses like cholera, typhoid, leprosy and malaria.

The 1986 law was devised to be revenue-neutral.

This was devised to get rid of Romanian Roma (gypsies).

Efficiency-wage theory was devised to explain high unemployment.

A simple algorithm was devised to optimize these weights.

A "bucket camera" was devised to follow her underwater.

A double-blind approach was devised to analyse Bm1 Bm5 distribution.

A modified LCM protocol was devised to preserve RNA integrity.

Because of the difficulty of observing the precise tongue positions that occur in vowels, a set of eight vowels known as the cardinal vowels has been devised to act as reference points.

In other words, scales were devised to act as a good proxy for clinical judgment which could be administered by less experienced clinicians.