Sentence examples for before he devised from inspiring English sources

It is hard to believe that he ventured to claim always to make the prima facie weaker case carry the day (which is equivalent to the claim to make every case whatever carry the day), but equally implausible that he merely claimed to make the weaker case stronger than it was before he devised arguments in its favor.

As Cullen states, "Before he devised his massacre, Eric settled into a life of petty crime.

Before he devised his tale of scarecrows and tin men, he worked, in no particular order, as an actor, a door-to-door-salesman, a choral singer, a newspaper editor and a convenience-store operator.

But the affidavit does not say how the FBI learned of Medina's "suspected desire" to attack the Jewish center, or what initial remarks or actions led agents to believe that Medina was willing to use violence before he devised his plans with the informant.

The latest study of Einstein's brain concludes that certain parts of it were indeed very unusual and might explain how he was able to go where no physicist had gone before when he devised the theory of relativity and other groundbreaking insights.

The French artist Philippe Thomas died at 44 in 1995, but as an artist had vanished long before, thanks to the twist he devised on Marcel Duchamp's famous readymades.

Asking questions for the committee, Rory Phillips QC told Crosby he was being questioned because "the seeds for what went wrong" were the result of plans and strategy he devised before his departure.

He said he had talked to each of his 15 veterans twice before the lockout and that he devised a plan for a brief training camp in case of a labor agreement.

"I built my own car, with so much petrol I could drive the world!" Long before there was Bang & Olufsen, he devised a fully integrated music system for his home.

Before they devised the plan, park officials said they had to define what they considered natural quiet.

Now, as Kim Jong-un is believed to be preparing for another nuclear test, the question remains how much longer America and its allies will take before devising a new collective strategy — one that does not settle for short-term diplomatic gains at the cost of long-term strategic interests.