Sentence examples for devise a means from inspiring English sources

A stage magician called Tommy Trent is travelling to the western front after being asked to devise a means of making allied aircraft invisible to the enemy.

A stage magician called Tommy Trent is travelling to the western front after being asked to devise a means of making allied aircraft invisible to the enemy.

That's not to say that there weren't fascinating concepts discussed, and ideas presented, like this paper from Alexander Franks and Andrew Miller, which attempts to devise a means for measuring individual defensive value.

The winning idea came not from an oil industry specialist but from a chemist, John Davis, who applied his expertise in the concrete industry to devise a means of keeping oil liquid as it is pumped.

The FBI had repeatedly told a federal judge in California that only Apple could devise a means into that iPhone 5C before it was approached by an unnamed third party that could.

Bulk purchasing obviously reduces the amount of packaging and, according to Laura Kemp, who sits on Rainbow's ecology committee, their next green aim is to devise a means to reduce the need for those nasty little plastic bags used ' to parcel up fruit and veg for weighing: "There's an island in the Pacific the size of Texas made of those plastic bags".

Rehearsing to play God, he devised a means of synthesising probiotics to waft away vaginal odours.

In the novel the opposition to Gen. Augusto Pinochet devises a means of winning the 1988 referendum on the dictatorship.

Neither the Russians nor anyone else had devised a means of turning men into robots and there was "little threat, if any, to national security," the study said.

But it wasn't until my junior year at Columbia that I devised a means of spending more time there than any customer in its history.

Foremost among them was a manufacturing question: while Sheridon had devised a means of fabricating the little balls, it did not yield uniform spheres; he found himself poking through the tiny globes, looking for good ones.