Sentence examples for devise a point from inspiring English sources

Some like to devise a point system.

We had devised a points system for evaluating celebrities spotted in the street.

Stock-car racing has not been the same since Nascar asked Bob Latford to devise a new points system in 1974.

The Argentinian fabulist Jorge Luis Borges composed a famous fragment called "On Exactitude in Science", that describes an empire whose guild of expert cartographers was commanded by their sovereign to devise a map which would be, point-for-point, coextensive with the empire's entire territory.

The Ecology Center helped devise a wireless, battery-powered point-of-sale swipe card device that satisfied the security concerns of federal officials, and launched a campaign to get them into markets.

Adams devises a hundred-point system to evaluate all the important criteria: dialogue, directing, writing, music.

They devised a seven-point plan to address the issue of coaches' taking advantage of their young athletes.

Keith had spent the previous day devising a 14-point plan, all colour-coded, just to get an awning up.

They devised a 14-point agenda that included everything from raising the minimum wage to abolition of the death penalty.

The coaches devised a 3-point exercise just for Gallinari, sending him to nine positions along the arc, with a requirement to make two straight shots at each spot.

In 1961, Beck devised a 21-point questionnaire, known as the Beck Depression Inventory, to quantify clients' suffering – and showed that, in about half of all cases, a few months of CBT relieved the worst symptoms.