Salter has said that he devised the narrative conceit out of necessity.
There are many better qualified than I to devise the political strategy and narrative.
which helped devise the program.
Devise the balance that works for you.
Like the rich in the United States who use the "job creator" tag to lobby for tax breaks, India's elite has devised the middle-class narrative to capture more public resources like fuel, food and education subsidies, often at the cost of the country's poor millions.
A similar effort to devise a "continental narrative" integrating the histories of the three Nafta partners, Canada, Mexico and the United States, has been stalled for more than a decade, and looks most likely never to come to pass.
The narrative of the book is inextricable from its creator, who also devised the watercolour illustrations that are key to the story's popularity.
Her singular innovation, after all, has been to devise a narrative strategy that encourages her subjects to reveal their characters in their own words.
Told to devise a narrative on which to string out these lyrical beads, Ms Johnson came up with a tale not wholly unlike a 1968 comedy, co-scripted by the great Denis Norden, called Buona Sera, Mrs Campbell.
Despite Mr Dimon's admirable private candour, the authors urge executives to devise a plausible narrative about their failure that includes "clearly denying culpability, shifting responsibility for the mishap, reducing the offensiveness of the act, giving the appearance of reasonable behaviour and offering acceptable motives".
"We devised the brief together".
