Sentence examples for as first devised from inspiring English sources
As first devised, the program allowed the NSA to intercept telephone calls and e-mail between the United States and overseas in which at least one party was suspected to be affiliated with al-Qaeda or related groups, without the court approval typically required for government wiretaps, administration officials said.
In this section we briefly consider parameter estimation by maximum likelihood, as first devised by Fisher (1956).
The Schmidt and Hunter approach (1998), as first devised, seemed relatively straightforward.
Our work shows that autocatalytic sets as first devised by Dyson [ 9, 10] and Kauffman [ 1, 11] are theoretically possible despite previous criticisms and, perhaps more interesting, that chemical evolution in these systems can lead to the appearance of viable autocatalytic cores, thus opening the possibility for evolution by natural selection.
A rigourous theory of probability as frequency was first devised by von Mises (1981), also defended by Reichenbach (1938) and beautifully expounded in van Lambalgen (1987).
The Belo Monte Dam project, formerly known as Kararaô, was first devised in the 1980's.
The hawala system was first devised as a form of medieval commerce to allow transactions between South Asia and the Middle East.
The trailers were first devised as a temporary solution to a spike in homeless sex offenders after the residency limits were imposed.
As when it was first devised, the symbol represents nuclear disarmament, for which CND still vigorously campaigns, and that the French government has not carried out.
First devised as a gentleman's play thing in the 1820s, the push-powered hobby-horse quickly evolved to become the most classless form of transport, trundling by the millions along highways and byways all over the world.
Chromatography using trivalent arsenicals as affinity ligands was first devised by Hannestad et al. to retain and separate mono- and dithiols, making use of interactions between the thiols and trivalent arsenicals.
