Sentence examples for devised to explain from inspiring English sources

Efficiency-wage theory was devised to explain high unemployment.

Later Greek philosophers distinguished observed facts (phenomena) from theories devised to explain them.

Tortuous theories, soon refuted, were devised to explain why the bronzes were actually Portuguese or Egyptian or Greek in origin.

And if a unified theory can be devised to explain them, most agree that it will be some time in the making — perhaps requiring the efforts of an obsessive-compulsive narcissist with some political skills.

In 1940 it was proved by examination of the Court of Chancery records about Hooker's estate that the story was a tale devised to explain the incomplete state of the last books of the Politie.

A case study is devised to explain the formulated model.

At larger scales, they devise theories to explain magnetism, the conduction of heat and electricity and other phenomena that occur the same way in a wide variety of materials.

At the very least, we are seeing a lot of executive energy spent on devising ways to explain why the budget that Mr. McGreevey will propose on Tuesday does not in fact require raising taxes, or not the really important taxes, anyway, or not the ones he mentioned in his revised campaign promise.

To navigate our social worlds, we inevitably devise theories to explain why others do those crazy things that they do.

The method, Ms. Abramovic explained, flows from exercises she devised to prepare participants to enact or experience art.

In this video, Aaron Chase, a professional mountain biker, explains the unorthodox setup he devised to take his filmmaking beyond the simple head-mounted camera.