The phrase 'devise a policy' is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when you need to create an idea, plan, or course of action. For example: "The president must devise a policy to reduce carbon emissions."
It took the federal government more than a year to devise a policy in answer to this thirst for freedom.
But the problem isn't that the administration is too busy to devise a policy toward Sudan but that it has a half-dozen policies, mostly at cross-purposes.
It has reaffirmed the international community's utter failure to devise a policy that might reverse, or at least slow, the North's nuclear program.
The report comes as the Bush administration seeks to devise a policy toward North Korea, which claims to be processing material for nuclear weapons and is thought by American intelligence services to possess at least two atomic bombs.
One of the first tests awaiting Mr. Bush or Vice President Al Gore will be to devise a policy that keeps Mr. Hussein in check even as other nations like Russia and France press to end Iraq's isolation.
It remains important right though childhood: so why not devise a policy whereby fathers can, yes, take proper paternity leave, but extend that right to way beyond the 46 weeks that Clegg is talking about.
Instead of devising a policy toward North Korea, Mr. Bush devised an epithet: "the axis of evil".
In 2010 my colleagues and I devised a policy that protected universities and students, especially the poorest.
But Mr. Putin rejected that approach and, Interfax reported Thursday, reprimanded Mr. Dvorkovich and Mr. Medvedev for being slow in devising a policy for offshore drilling.
After the riots in the 80s, he spent a deal of time in the city and devised a policy to revamp it.
Some of the lawyers, echoed by some Vatican officials, said they believed that the American bishops, under intense pressure at their meeting in Dallas in June, devised a policy that was inflexible, disproportionate and too punitive to priests.
