Safeguards are not hard to devise: someone in sound enough mind to write their will can be judged fit enough to choose when it's time to die, without undue duress from greedy relatives.
Safeguards are not hard to devise: someone in sound enough mind to write their will can be judged fit enough to choose when it's time to die, without undue duress from greedy relatives.
Playing a game involves playing inside a rule-set devised by someone else.
Kids sit for hours doing scales or the formal, repetitive exercises devised by someone called Hanon; they don't improvise or invent.
Eggsy aside, the lower orders are feckless louts, while the look and the sound of their posh counterparts seem to have been devised by someone leafing through a copy of the Tatler from 1983.
The tax code, as Mr. Edwards noted, is riddled with discriminatory loopholes, the most prominent of them seemingly devised by someone who played "The Game of Life" when he was a child.
"Domenech had come into the 2006 World Cup with a masterplan that quickly looked more like a botched strategy devised by someone who didn't master much, least of all his own players," wrote Philippe Auclair of L'Equipe in his biography of Thierry Henry, Lonely at the Top.
The program, begun by the Nuclear Regulatory Commission in 1991, was devised to prevent someone from causing the devastation seen at the Chernobyl nuclear power station in Ukraine in 1986.
I didn't understand it, since "snowflake" was devised to convey someone who melts at the first criticism; in debating, one plainly isn't melting.
The prize, consisting of a Montblanc pen, was suggested by the author in his capacity as a patron of The National Academy of Writing, and was devised to reward someone for both their written clarity and their sense of nuance.
