Sentence examples for attempted to devise a from inspiring English sources
Though Kepler attempted to devise a new method of computing astrological influences in the heliocentric (Sun-centred) universe, he did not succeed.
Various psychoanalysts, namely; Freud, Breuer, Jung, Klein, and Ferenczi attempted to devise a type of cloth to protect their couches from the stains their patients' heads left.
He and Michael Habib of the University of Southern California in Los Angeles attempted to devise a more accurate model of the forces on the animals as they launched, flew, and landed.
We thus attempted to devise a user integrity monitor which is capable of identifying the GPS failure more rapidly than a standard RAIM scheme by incorporating the RAIM with the relative entropy, which is a likelihood ratio approach to assess the inconsistence between two data streams, quite different from a Euclidean distance.
He and the producers attempted to devise a suit featuring the red trunks, but could not design one that fit into the tone of the film, leading to their removal from the suit.
Given the poor performance of diagnostic tools we attempted to devise a clinical prediction rule, hitherto unavailable, suited to resource-poor high HIV prevalence settings.
By the middle of the 16th century lawyers had attempted to devise an alternative using the action of assumpsit, which was technically a type of trespass due to deceit.
The UN's representative was "attempting to devise a formula... which will result in affirmation of Indonesian sovereignty".
Early attempts to devise a blast-furnace process for zinc production failed because of the difficulty of condensing zinc vapour from a gas containing substantial quantities of carbon dioxide.
Mike Tranghese, the Big East Conference commissioner, spent yesterday the way he'll spend the next 12 months: frantically lobbying, bargaining, attempting to devise a strategy to save the conference he has been involved with for the last 23 years.
