Sentence examples for devised a committee from inspiring English sources

To help coordinate resistance to what he saw as the British government's attempts to violate the British Constitution at the expense of the colonies, in 1772 Adams and his colleagues devised a committee of correspondence system, which linked like-minded Patriots throughout the Thirteen Colonies.

At the University System of Georgia, a committee devised a common core curriculum for the university's three dozen colleges in the 1990s, also settling on 42 credits to fulfill the requirement.

To protest this development, in November 1772 Adams and his colleagues devised a system of committees of correspondence; the towns of Massachusetts would consult with each other concerning political matters via messages sent through a network of committees that recorded British activities and protested imperial policies.

The programmes, too, were tired; in fact they were devised by a committee.

The American Psychiatric Association provided a label for such cases that could only have been devised by a committee: Pervasive Developmental Disorders Not Otherwise Specified, PDDNOS.

(Cotter) ERIC FERTMAN With their m?nges of bulbous forms, cartoonish representational elements, dowels, posts and other structural or anthropomorphic parts, Mr. Fertman's comically exuberant wooden sculptures resemble a goofy sort of Cubism that might have been devised by a committee of Mir?uston, Westermann and R. Crumb.

Then, in 1968, 13 men on a Harvard University committee devised a protocol that privileged a "loss of personhood" over cardiopulmonary death, allowing doctors "to declare a person dead in less time than it takes to get a decent eye exam".

So the competition committee devised a formula: each team would get a chance to move the ball if the team with the first possession did not score a touchdown.

Whatever the case, the exchange's compensation committee devised a contract to award him with an immediate lump sum payment of $139.5 million and an additional $48 million to be paid over four years for past and future work.

The compensation committee devised a contract to award him an immediate lump sum payment of $139.5 million and an additional $48 million to be paid over four years for past and future work.

With no blueprints for guidance, the foundation's committees devised a yearlong selection process from scratch, and they have carried it out with a secrecy that rivals the Vatican's.