Sentence examples for attempting to devise from inspiring English sources

Banks are now attempting to devise ways of avoiding the cap.

The UN's representative was "attempting to devise a formula... which will result in affirmation of Indonesian sovereignty".

Their Secure Digital Music Initiative is attempting to devise foolproof protection against Internet music piracy, which even some members of the initiative concede is an impossible goal.

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.

Because the telephone was considered a variation of acoustic telegraphy, Edison during the summer of 1877 was attempting to devise for it, as he had for the automatic telegraph, a machine that would transcribe signals as they were received, in this instance in the form of the human voice, so that they could then be delivered as telegraph messages.

"You've got the criminals or foreign militaries attempting to devise ammunition that penetrates the latest armor," he said, "and then our response is to develop stronger and tougher and lighter armor that stops those threats, and back and forth, back and forth".

The field of public finance has since attempted to devise such criteria.

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.

Though Kepler attempted to devise a new method of computing astrological influences in the heliocentric (Sun-centred) universe, he did not succeed.

He spent his working life as a civil servant and played a key role in the Genoa Conference of 1922, which attempted to devise arrangements for a stable return to the gold standard.

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.