Sentence examples for and sought to devise from inspiring English sources

On the eve of the Russia-EU summit today in France, the energy package released by the European commission highlighted Europe's dependence on Russian exports and sought to devise strategies to wean Europe off the addiction.

He learned about questions of reference and semantics, and sought to devise a way of making philosophy into a science, with a standardized technical vocabulary -- a quest that he now thinks is futile.

If this is correct, there is no obvious need for a separate theory of statistical explanation of individual outcomes of the sort that Hempel and Salmon sought to devise (But see footnote 7).

But because 70percentt of the iron ore China imports comes from the three companies — Rio Tinto, BHP Billiton and Vale — Beijing has sought to devise a strategy to ensure cheaper supplies.

In addition, we sought to devise an efficient and valid method to track students' learning in the PBL process.

We sought to devise a combined endoscopic and percutaneous approach to drainage of organized pancreatic necrosis, with the primary goal of preventing the formation of chronic pancreaticocutaneous fistulae, and secondary goals of avoiding the need for surgical necrosectomy and reducing endoscopic resource utilization.

American scientists who sought to devise one in the 1940s and early 1950s thus called their dream weapon "the Super".

He tried to manage the "social architecture" and the "operating system" of the company as much as he sought to devise specific business strategies.

Indeed, Mr. Esser had sought to devise his own merger with Vivendi.

While he fervently embraced music's unassailable affective nature, Wolpe no less doggedly sought to devise theoretical bases for composition.

That urgency, it seemed to many of us, was scarcely reflected in the tortuous arrangements that the international community sought to devise to end the violence.