Sentence examples for devise to keep from inspiring English sources

His mature imagery deals at least peripherally, subliminally, with the large and small ploys that human beings devise to keep afloat under the rain of damage that life spreads around so liberally.

In this sense the basic package is primarily a policy devise to keep regions accountable to national standards.

Rafts of ultra-specific targets were devised to keep track of performance.

The method he devised to keep the saloon tranquil was characteristic of him.

These include reducing the 10% voter-support threshold needed for a party to enter parliament, a rule originally devised to keep the Kurds out.

The statute is akin to the "trading with the enemy" laws that were devised to keep Americans from doing business with Castro's Cuba.

Her renowned parties were noted not only for her chic guests but also for the novelties Maxwell devised to keep them amused.

It was devised to keep candidates from campaigning in Florida, where the primary is set for Jan . 29 and Michigan, which is trying to move its contest to Jan . 15

Darquier helped the Nazis penetrate the rigmarole and paperwork that Vichy had devised to keep the spoils of "Aryanization" — the looting of Jewish properties — out of German hands.

Céline offers devastating critiques of Christianity, capitalism, socialism — all the kleptocratic belief systems devised to keep the poor in their place, and the bourgeoisie in theirs as well.

A plan was devised to keep Nick at home until the last possible moment and then to transport him to a hospital, where an informal protocol had been set up to help him become an organ donor.