The phrase "are devised to stop" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing plans, strategies, or mechanisms that are created with the intention of preventing something from happening.
Example: "The new regulations are devised to stop illegal activities in the area."
Alternatives: "are designed to prevent" or "are intended to halt".
Debt mutualisation can be devised to stop short of a permanent transfer union.
Green belts were devised to stop urban sprawl and to prevent towns from engulfing neighbouring villages.
There is no suggestion that A4e would have received any direct financial reward for placing people in unpaid work experience but the official explained that mandatory placements were partly devised to stop those private companies running back-to-work schemes from "parking" difficult or problematic jobseekers.
The genesis of both lay in the realization by concerned officials that forests could not be "protected" from impoverished villagers; instead, viable livelihood alternatives needed to be devised to enable the villages to stop unsustainable forest exploitation and, instead, acquire a stake in forest protection.
Beginning with Stanley Kubrick's "2001: A Space Odyssey" (which was released in 1968) increasingly sophisticated instrumentation has been devised to control camera movement during stop-action photography.
The stopping rule is devised to ensure that the required significance level and power are achieved and that valid statistical inference can be drawn at the end of the study.
The legalization of wolf hunting in both states was devised to manage a rebounding wolf population after the federal government stopped listing the species as endangered in the region last year.
Governors were devised to prevent this.
Crude methods were devised to lift it to the surface.
Several methods have been devised to enable their removal.
