Sentence examples for devised before from inspiring English sources

The system was devised before the days of crack and the divorce epidemic.

"There are probably going to be many more models devised before we have an answer on this".

So we must assume that Patricia Hewitt's healthcare initiative - reported last Friday and Saturday - was devised before the terrorism bill debacle on Wednesday.

Dole seems to be playing out a script that Nixon devised before his death, but if Dole believes he's paying homage to Nixon this way, he's wrong.

It was devised before 2500 bce in China and by the late 20th century was used in many other areas of the world.

The concept, devised before the 1970s oil crisis and well before this decade's fears of depleting oil supplies, guided the community's evolution.

Genetic mutations can devise never-before-seen compounds.

To me, the definitive outdoor music event is one that many cultures devised long before amplified sound systems: the parade.

Mallory, he says, "was the inheritor of a complex of emotions and attitudes toward mountainous landscape, devised long before his birth, which largely predetermined his responses to it".

Under his proposal it would be held once a question was devised but before the referendum, to ensure it had the full support of Aboriginal and Torres Strait islander people.

Emma, clinging to her idealism, plays bass in an "all-girl band... variously called Throat, Slaughterhouse Six and Bad Biscuit," then joins a strident arts collective called Sledgehammer Theatre Cooperative (intent on doing "really good, exciting original political devised work") before taking a job at a Mexican restaurant called Loco Caliente.