Sentence examples for devised the rules from inspiring English sources

The Basel Committee on Banking Supervision devised the rules, known as Basel III, after the 2008 financial crisis revealed the frailty of global banks.

Throughout his time in the private sector, Ramaphosa has remained on the party's national executive committee and has been the chairman of influential working groups — including the one that devised the rules of black economic empowerment.

Announcing the appointment the chancellor referenced Woods' role on the Independent Commission on Banking (ICB), which devised the rules requiring a ringfence between high street and investment banking arms.

Our hope is to move the debate forward, with everyone engaged constructively in developing a clearer, simpler system – one in which companies that abide by the law know that the politicians who devised the rules are willing to defend and commend them.

The Bechdel Test is named for the American graphic artist and novelist Alison Bechdel, who first devised the rules over a quarter century ago in her forthright comic strip as a way to measure gender balance in the movies.

"The cross-state air pollution rule is final," Betsaida Alcantara, press secretary for the Environmental Protection Agency, which devised the rule, said in an e-mail.

Of the first seven answers 0.4, 0.7, 1.0, 1.6, 2.8, 5.2, 10.0 six of them (2.8 being the exception) closely approximate the distances from the Sun, expressed in astronomical units (AU; the mean Sun-Earth distance), of the six planets known when Titius devised the rule: Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, and Saturn.

In each school the head teacher will devise the rules of the scheme and do the appraising.

Mr. Buckhorn said that in devising the rules, officials in Tampa have studied previous conventions and economic summit meetings that have drawn protesters.

Journalists such as Henry Chadwick, who was instrumental in devising the rules of baseball, paint a vivid picture of American inter-collegiate cricket in the 19th century as a rather competitive affair with elite schools, including Harvard and the University of Pennsylvania, vying for top honours year after year.

Organizations capable of efficient production must be enabled to rise above the rest of the social landscape, and to devise the rules by which this may happen is the principal intellectual task of the planners; their main administrative task is to provide the capital means to such organizations.