"devised scheme" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
It is typically used to refer to a carefully thought out or planned idea or plan. Example: The company's new CEO has devised a scheme to increase profits by cutting costs and expanding into new markets.
The court's newly devised scheme for retabulating votes is plainly arbitrary, capricious, unequal and standardless.
Because neither the State Supreme Court nor the trial court that was supervising the recount set standards for how to assess the various ballot permutations, "the court's newly devised scheme for re-tabulating votes is plainly arbitrary, capricious, unequal and standardless," the Bush brief said.
Since then, councils in England have had to administer their own, locally devised schemes, with reduced funding from the government.
Over the years, state lawmakers have traditionally devised schemes that allowed them to approve spending in one year -often an election year - but not pay for it until the next year.
The dispute is now in the arbitration courts.In Bolivia, three big cities, La Paz, Santa Cruz and Cochabamba, all devised schemes to improve chronically deficient water supplies (in a country with above-average rainfall).
But in a political setting, we devised schemes then to assure living wages to autoworkers, only to see Roosevelt's rickety structure comes crashing down on our heads.
It said it was investing £1.3bn in recruitment and had devised schemes to ensure new teachers stayed in their jobs in areas with a poor record of retaining teachers.
The report, written by the New Policy Institute (NPI) for the foundation, found 232 local authorities had devised schemes that would demand council tax from everyone regardless of income, while 58 will retain current levels of support for families.
They devised schemes to meet paramours in town, including smuggling love letters inside chickens that were delivered to corrupt wardens.
Tax lawyers are already devising schemes to exploit the many new loopholes the plan would create.
Some private defendants have also been convicted of devising schemes through which public servants defraud the public.
