Sentence examples for devised mainly from inspiring English sources

But the proposal was devised mainly by senior Republicans on the two House committees that share authority over Medicare.

In the immediate aftermath of the 1999 Kosovo war, the pact was devised mainly by the Germans and Americans to coordinate aid to the Balkans.

They say the methodology was devised mainly for internal purposes rather than to compare the military's suicide problems with the general population's.

It was an experiment, devised mainly to find out whether the procedure was safe, and to gauge how much Avastin the brain could tolerate.

Heidi Valetkevitch, a Forest Service spokeswoman, said Mr. Rey was "in the chain of command" but the plan had been devised mainly by Ms. Collins and Dale N. Bosworth, chief of the Forest Service.

While school safety plans are evaluated and updated each fall, Mr. Levy said that those plans were devised mainly to address problems that might occur in a single school building, like a fire or bomb threat.

In 1965 he purchased an unwieldy sound-on-film Auricon camera and began deploying the personalities he called "superstars" in fitfully dramatic situations, mainly devised by the playwright Ron Tavel.

It returned the next year with Clarkson as the main presenter, after he and fellow Old Reptonian Andy Wilman, a producer, devised a different, mainly studio-based format, focusing on banter between presenters.

Quantum information protocols like quantum teleportation, quantum cloning, and quantum cryptography, mainly devised for spin-1/2 systems (especially polarization-entangled photons) can also be efficiently realized in the continuous-variable (CV) regime.

The only study on GES design for HOTs [ 16] is limited to comparison of existing GESs mainly devised for second-order tensor imaging, for example, the minimum condition number (MCN) scheme [ 12].

The charge against Fastow, who was arrested yesterday, is that he and others, mainly Kopper, "devised a scheme to defraud Enron and its shareholders" through a series of transactions using so-called special purpose entities (SPEs) "that allowed Enron to make itself appear more attractive to Wall Street investment analysts and credit rating agencies".