Sentence examples for device employed by from inspiring English sources
It passed into theatrical usage in the early 18th century to describe a device employed by professional actors to circumvent the dramatic monopoly held by the Comédie-Française.
Like the famous "stairway to nowhere," a device employed by Morris Lapidus in the lobbies of his Miami Beach hotels, Tschumi's stair serves more to aggrandize space than to ease circulation.
They were likewise opposed to his criticisms of religion in general as a device employed by evildoers and a kind of tyranny over human beings that exploits their innocence and credulity, perpetuates ignorance, and leads to conflicts and wars.
By Otto Mang, Edward O'Toole, and Russell Maloney The New Yorker, June 13 , 1936P. 9 Talk story about Jerry, a wooden dummy on roller skates, the size of a twelve-year old boy, a safety device employed by the Brooklyn Edison Company to test their six hundred odd drivers with the necessity of safe driving.
After Mr. Kerry's remark was greeted with enthusiasm by Russia's foreign minister, Sergey V. Lavrov, the State Department suggested that it was not a proposal at all, but simply a "rhetorical" device employed by the secretary, as Hannah Allam of McClatchy Newspapers reported from Washington.
Though often understood as a device employed by poets, metaphor is part of everyday speech.
Many of the devices employed by craftsmen in Greece, Rome, and Byzantium were later used by those in Western Europe and Russia.
In his 1891 book, "Architecture Mysticism and Myth," Lethaby predicted the rise of new architectural forms that would recast the labyrinth, the painted sky, the rippling floor and other symbolic devices employed by ancient theocratic civilizations.
The importance of the theme of metamorphosis is more apparent than real; passion is the essential theme of the poem, and passion imparts more unity to the work than do the transformation devices employed by Ovid.
So far, no other carmaker has been found to have used the same so-called "defeat devices" employed by Volkswagen.
The disposable items, used for bone grafts, are far more expensive than the reusable devices employed by most hospitals, orthopedic surgery experts told The Times.
