Sentence examples for devise to prevent from inspiring English sources

It has been proposed that Myc induced differentiation acts as a fail-safe devise to prevent uncontrolled epidermal stem cell proliferation (Jensen & Watt, 2006; Watt et al, 2008), and it would be interesting to discover whether this also applies to Wnt-mediated differentiation.

Governors were devised to prevent this.

The sanctions were devised to prevent Iran from developing nuclear weapons, which the government denies seeking.

Such rules are devised to prevent gambling on human life and are the basis for pricing life insurance.

Since the end of the 19th century, many and ingenious methods had been devised to prevent this from happening.

The measure approved on Tuesday was devised to prevent a repeat of the backroom politicking in 2008.

The procedures had been devised to prevent the recurrence of past abuses, such as Nixon's use of the N.S.A. to spy on his political enemies.

The eurozone was easily portrayed as a basket case in which failed EU policies were stirring up the very extremism the union had been devised to prevent.

They say those limitations are the consequence of a Constitution devised to prevent the reoccurrence of the country's totalitarian past.

Because of the censorship apparatus devised to prevent the scrutiny of the dictatorship's origins, Spain's modern and contemporary historiography ceded a disproportionate importance to foreign – and particularly to Anglo-Saxon – historians.

The official said the civilian death toll would probably have been reduced if American air crews and forces on the ground had followed strict rules devised to prevent civilian casualties.