Sentence examples for devised a deal from inspiring English sources

For much of 2005, Mr. Geffen devised a deal under which the company was to have been sold to NBC Universal and its majority owner General Electric.

But he did have an early effect on one NBC product: he devised a deal with the satellite service DirecTV to keep the critically acclaimed "Friday Night Lights" in production through two additional seasons.

Roux and Luczo quickly devised a deal to take Seagate private but with much less debt in the mix.

Mr. Diller is said to be devising a deal with John C. Malone, whose Liberty Media owns 3percentt of Vivendi Universal and 20percentt of USA Interactive.

Mr. Rehn, in his defense of the Cyprus negotiations on Wednesday, suggested that the difficulty of devising a deal for Cyprus was made worse by member states like Germany and others that insisted on limiting the total contribution to €10 billion — even though the total financing needs had been estimated at €17 billion.

In March 2001, Mr. Tafeen told other Homestore executives that he and Mr. Keller had devised a new deal, describing it as "scary how perfect it was," according to the complaint.

The schools and the city devised a new deal, with the schools paying $44 million for use of 50 percent of the fields during the after-school hours and guaranteeing that public schools would get 40 percent of the use.

The decline might have been steeper, Mr. Laws said, had Chrysler not devised a special deal to attract new customers, offering to pay a portion of customers' fuel bills instead of giving them an ordinary rebate.

Aware of the feeling in these and other resource-rich regions, such as the Riau archipelago and East Kalimantan, the central government has devised a new fiscal deal, leaving richer regions a greater share of revenues.

China approved the reactors after the George W. Bush administration, as part of its strategy to strengthen India as a bulwark against China, devised a civilian nuclear deal that gave India access to nuclear reactors, fuel and technology on the world market.

Mr Welchman, who died in 1985, devised a system to deal with thousands of messages a day encrypted by the German Enigma machine.