Sentence examples for attempts to devise from inspiring English sources

Tells of attempts to devise a mechanical harvesting machine.

The most energetic attempts to devise a countercyclical fiscal policy were made in Britain and Sweden.

While attempts to devise heat engines were made in ancient times, the steam engine of the 18th century was the first successful type.

Two attempts to devise a keyboard version using a bellows were the anémocorde (1789), invented by Johann Jacob Schnell, and the piano éolien (1837), by M. Isouard.

They are usually attempts to devise a standardised idiom out of a multiplicity of actually spoken idioms, which are thereafter downgraded to dialects".

(Continuing attempts to devise a show that would not draw pickets — for instance, by working without writers — have come up short).

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

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

Students of public policy attempt to devise solutions to policy problems as well as to study governmental responses to them.

The Reed Krakoff line is the designer's attempt to devise a code that reflects his own aesthetic.

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