Sentence examples for devised to act from inspiring English sources

Because of the difficulty of observing the precise tongue positions that occur in vowels, a set of eight vowels known as the cardinal vowels has been devised to act as reference points.

In other words, scales were devised to act as a good proxy for clinical judgment which could be administered by less experienced clinicians.

A new structure staffed by prosecutors is being devised to investigate criminal acts committed by magistrates.

The report did not determine whether the companies had violated the Iran Sanctions Act, devised to punish foreign companies that invested more than $20 million in a given year to develop Iran's oil and gas fields.

One of the government's most powerful tools, at least on paper, to influence the behavior of companies beyond the jurisdiction of the embargo is the Iran Sanctions Act, devised to punish foreign companies that invest more than $20 million in a given year to develop Iran's oil and gas fields.

[They act like] knowledgeable men but they devise to destroy, [they act] guiltless though they sin against the pious.

Thus I defend myself with Winston Churchill's words: "The Official Secrets Act was devised to protect the national defence … and ought not to be used to shield ministers who have a strong personal interest in concealing the truth".

In April, Singapore's Parliament responded to the SARS outbreak by amending its 27-year-old Infectious Diseases Act, which was devised to combat endemic illnesses like cholera, typhoid, leprosy and malaria.

The issue was the Affordable Care Act's risk corridor program, which was devised to shelter insurers from unexpected losses in covering Affordable Care Act customers from 2014 through 2016.

Teachers began sharing online the most interesting activities that they'd devised: using Spheros to act like atoms; substituting a Sphero for the ball in a game of miniature golf.

Its publication was instead merely a crude provocation devised to foreground the latest assault on the racial discrimination act.