Sentence examples for being able to devise from inspiring English sources

He credited Ms. Jackson with frequently being able to devise a "political maneuver to blunt the stuff coming from the builders".

We have not been able to devise any other term for it.

He hadn't been able to devise a work-around for that.

Nevertheless, experimenters have been able to devise clever schemes either to measure it or to prevent its development.

So far, the government has not even been able to devise a card for flight attendants, pilots or Secret Service agents.

"If you can understand the mechanism," Dr. Insel said, "you should be able to devise new treatments.

Instead of coming up with one grand idea, new digitally adept workers in creative fields should be able to devise multiple ways to execute an idea.

Because the patch is a software solution, Mr. Trischetta argued, virus writers may be able to devise their own computer program to get around it.

Even if Hoover had been able to devise a perfect plan for surmounting the disaster, his lack of political skills would have prevented him from enacting it.

Nonetheless, he was able to devise a simplified list that harmonized them, and now Merchants of Green Coffee can label its product Environmental Choice.

But, even before Wednesday's announcement, Republicans signalled that they would not be able to devise a tax-reform plan along the lines of the 1986 changes.