Sentence examples for devised the theory from inspiring English sources

The geographer Jay Appleton, who has died aged 95, devised the theory of "prospect-refuge", which sought to explain why people feel safe in certain environments and not in others.

The analysis makes it sound as if reciprocal altruism comes out of a robotlike calculation, but in fact Robert Trivers, the biologist who devised the theory, argued that it is implemented in the brain as a suite of moral emotions.

In an article in the January issue of The Art Newspaper, Mr. Bailey wrote that he had devised the theory after studying van Gogh's painting "Still Life: Drawing Board With Onions," which the artist completed a month after cutting off part of his left earlobe.

Given the furor he feared it would unleash, it is not surprising that Charles Darwin sat on his "great idea," refusing to publish "The Origin of Species" until 1859, more than 20 years after he first devised the theory of evolution.

To solve this problem of "aboutness" Dignāga had devised the theory of concepts, i.e., apoha ("exclusions").

The latest study of Einstein's brain concludes that certain parts of it were indeed very unusual and might explain how he was able to go where no physicist had gone before when he devised the theory of relativity and other groundbreaking insights.

A similar sense a hundred years ago gave birth to the progressive movement, a broad-based effort at reform whose principal historical project was to devise the theory and the institutions of activist government -- to substitute drift for mastery, as Walter Lippmann once described it.

He takes a job at Ives's insurance company, where he devises the theory of risk management, and eventually contributes to the World War II effort, for which he is given an appropriately small, dank office in the basement of the White House by Franklin D. Roosevelt.

Darwin's study of the island's finches, among other things, helped him devise the theory of natural selection: Species that adapt to their environment have a better chance of survival.

September 11 , 1798Joachimsthal, Germany May 23 , 1895Königsberg, Germany Franz Ernst Neumann, (born Sept. 11, 1798, Joachimsthal, Ger. died May 23 , 1895 Königsberg), German mineralogist, physicist, and mathematician who devised the first mathematical theory of electrical induction, the process of converting mechanical energy to electrical energy.

In that job, he and several other staff lawyers, including Arlen Specter, the future Pennsylvania senator, devised the single-bullet theory — which explained how Gov. John B. Connally of Texas and President Kennedy could have been struck almost instantaneously at one point, without there having been a second gunman.