The phrase "allowed them to devise" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing granting permission or enabling a group to create or formulate something.
Example: "The funding provided by the organization allowed them to devise a new strategy for community outreach."
Alternatives: "permitted them to create" or "enabled them to formulate".
Simply put, predictive marketing software arms marketers with accurate insights into who is interested in buying a product or service, allowing them to devise highly personalized campaigns.
The model process responds to Vangen and Huxham "handles for reflective practice" that "aim to support participants in understanding their collaborative relationships and so allow them to devise their own management strategies" (ref. 13, p. 757).
For example, rather than framing a discussion of phylogenetic methods as a lecture containing one or two short activities, we simply give participants a set of nucleotide or amino acid sequences and allow them to devise and test their own tree-building strategies.
In practice, scientists appreciate that there is no universally agreed definition of a gene, but they devise working definitions that allow them to formulate hypotheses and explain observations.
Farther downriver, in the muddy flats at the head of the Elephant Butte Reservoir, in southern New Mexico, the water would neither support their weight nor allow them to paddle, so they devised a method of pushing their boats with their hands and feet while lying on the stern.
Google and other search engines operating in Europe, including Microsoft's Bing and Yahoo, will have to devise procedures that allow them to accept requests for link removal from individuals.
It's based within a new Cheltenham Cyber Innovation Centre, putting the selected startup teams within easy reach of agency staff and expertise — to, as the government puts it, "allow them to expand capability, improve ideas and devise cutting-edge products to outpace current and emerging threats".
Now that the students have received the information, you need to devise an activity that allows them to put it into action.
Our theoretical framework considers discontinuities in the building blocks of sectoral innovation systems as windows of opportunity for which challenger firms can devise strategic responses allowing them to assume market leadership.
In response, believers devised intricate boundaries allowing them to live more or less peaceably with neighbors whose rival beliefs were anathema.
