Sentence examples for as he devised from inspiring English sources

Bin Laden constructed his own symbolic identity as methodically as he devised Al Qaeda's bureaucratic structures.

But Stockhausen seldom let himself become a prisoner of the system, even as he devised ever more elaborate schemes of ordering.

His eccentric workaholism became more ambitious as he devised a whole cosmogony that discussed the electromagnetic nature of the universe, the splitting of the atom and the existence of interstellar matter.

"He was considered one of the television industry's greatest minds as he devised the idea for the Weatherfield soap at the age of 24, at the very beginning of his acclaimed writing career".

Columbus continued to express his fondness for the Taino — "They are a people very generous of spirit, so that they give everything that they are asked for with the best will in the world," he wrote — even as he devised new and more grotesque employments for them.

The extraordinary demands he made of his body as he devised ever more extravagant business took a terrible toll, occasionally compounded by the state of warfare that existed between management and stage-hands, who would occasionally "forget" to secure a trap door, sending him plunging 20ft below the stage.

We feel we are really with Carroll as he devises these entertainments for 10-year-old Alice Liddell.

As he devises a China policy, President-elect George W. Bush can draw on the research, some of which has been done by the public policy institute at Rice University named after former Secretary of State James Baker.

As he devises the concept for his cartoon, he eliminates anything he believes to be malicious or insensitive.

He becomes particularly energized as he devises ways to tell time, then to communicate with the outside world.

It's a bit of a game that Leo has created for himself, as he devises a new work of cover art within the time frame allotted by each album's duration.