Sentence examples for devised to destroy from inspiring English sources

The new attacks, officials say, were devised to destroy data and manipulate the machinery that operates critical control systems, like oil pipelines.

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

Outraged by the abuse, the previously apolitical Chamusso joined the armed wing of the African National Congress and devised a plan to destroy the plant.

Their former protectors, the monarchs in Spain, began to restrict the rights and privileges of the Jews, and the devastation caused by the Black Death led to increased popular hostility, as many believed that the plague was a plot devised by Jews to destroy Christianity.

After Pan Am Flight 103 was destroyed over Scotland by a bomb hidden in baggage, rules were devised to make sure every piece of luggage was reconciled with a passenger who actually boarded the flight.

While many religious conservatives might argue that the legalization of same-gender marriage and shows like HBO's Big Love, about a fictional polygamist Mormon family, plant seeds to destroy the conventional family unit, we have to ask ourselves whether monogamy is a natural instinct in us or a social construct devised to protect and regulate the institution of heterosexual marriage.

Governors were devised to prevent this.

A formula can be devised to distribute according to usage.

No rescue plan devised to save you from despair.

Interventions were devised to target these factors.

Methods were devised to address two questions.