So a complex electoral college was devised, giving a third of the votes to the unions, a third to party units, and a third to MPs and assembly candidates.
The system he devised gave a strong incentive to both deficit and surplus countries to clear their bancor accounts annually, ending up with neither a trade deficit nor a surplus.
The House bill would maintain financing at presequester levels, $1.043 trillion, with detailed spending instructions for defense programs devised to give the Pentagon more flexibility.
Many observers long ago wrote off A Just Russia as "pocket opposition," devised to give the appearance of political competition where none existed.
On Tuesday night, Port Chester's trustees voted to hire a law firm to appeal the federal court ruling that created the new system, which was devised to give the Westchester County village's large Latino population a better chance of electing one of its own to the board.
The word that came to mind along with it was "biomorphic": the swirling forms, the asymmetrical cutouts and the swooping cuts, and the intertwining coils all seemed devised to give the inanimate dresses and tunics and slashed-open pants a life of their own.
OK, politics isn't being devised for our entertainment — although given the dismal situation, finding the humor often seems the only way to get through the week.
A way was devised that effectively gave the DES a 112-bit key—ironically, the key size of the Lucifer algorithm originally proposed by IBM in 1974.
Before that there was Bill Belichick, widely admired for the mind-boggling schemes he devised, but who gave the only extended public peek into his personality with his inauspicious departure speech.
