Sentence examples for devised from scratch from inspiring English sources

He said he devised "from scratch" the system that yielded the citywide school report cards: the Achievement Reporting and Innovation System is based not only on test results, but also on surveys of 600,000 students, teachers and parents.

Devising from scratch a system for legal sales and informing the public about the law are both tasks, state and local officials say, that require the turning over of a new leaf.

Everything that we have accomplished – every success and failure – has been devised completely from scratch, beginning with this simple conversation about ideas.

But playwrights became increasingly concerned that the kind of experimental company they'd learned their craft with was no longer using playwrights to write shows but devising them from scratch themselves.

The Purple Ronnie-style cards, which Newman has devised and designed from scratch, are so popular with students "they are desperate to be first to acquire the full set", says the head of maths, Richard Blanes.

Captivated by the creatures, and noticing that there were no major conservation projects to support them, Ciofi proceeded to devise a project from scratch.

This is usually achieved either by changing, in an ad hoc manner, the code of a crash resilient protocol or by devising a new protocol from scratch.

The AK-47's designers did not dream up the assault rifle from scratch, but devised a superior version of it.

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.

He doubted whether there was any such being who could devise something on his own from scratch.

In many cases, Texas schools will have to devise their truancy prevention programs from scratch.