The phrase "devise means" is correct and can be used in written English.
It typically refers to finding a way to achieve a desired result. For example, "The organization needed to devise means to reduce their overhead costs."
They also appear at a time when the need to devise means to improve America's tarnished international image, particularly in the Islamic world, appears pressing.
By E. B. White The New Yorker, August 5, 1933 P. 5 Mr. Lippmann says it is not easy to devise means of restraining speculation in stocks.
On the contrary, the company members are forever challenging themselves to devise means of portraying the extraordinary through ordinary, dust-gathering items you might find in the corners of your garage or attic: a dressmaker's dummy, knitted afghans, a stepladder, a pair of stick horses, a taxidermy wolf's head and a rod festooned with discarded chintz curtains.
But I've also spent a great deal of time discussing the details of this issue in the last two years, with both private-sector and government experts (some at the Fed, others not) – and the simple fact remains that the Fed can devise means of support when needed, more easily to banks but probably to any entity whose imminent collapse is deemed to pose a risk to the financial system.
Given the uncertainty concerning the safety of NMs, it is critically important to analyze their potential toxicological hazards and devise means of minimizing the impact of exposure to such substances.
We can devise means, through the application and sophistication of science, to remind governments that if they will not be responsible stewards of our rights, we the people will implement systems that provide for a means of not just enforcing our rights, but removing from governments the ability to interfere with those rights.
Noguchi devised means of cultivating microorganisms that had never before been grown in the test tube.
"Brilliant and innovative," in Mr. Lichty's estimation, Mr. Giovannoni was harvesting raw Arbitron data on public-radio listenership and devising means of analyzing it.
Perkins also experimented with high-pressure steam boilers and in 1823 devised means to attain working steam pressure of 800 1400 psi.
"Heaven has not only given us the capacity of greater enjoyment, but the talent of devising means to prevent the evils that are liable to arise therefrom; and it becomes us, 'with thanksgiving, to make the most of them,' " he wrote.
We have then devised means to bypass the intrinsic limitations of the CIF 1.1 file format adopted by the TCOD.
