Sentence examples for devised to keep from inspiring English sources

Rafts of ultra-specific targets were devised to keep track of performance.

The method he devised to keep the saloon tranquil was characteristic of him.

These include reducing the 10% voter-support threshold needed for a party to enter parliament, a rule originally devised to keep the Kurds out.

The statute is akin to the "trading with the enemy" laws that were devised to keep Americans from doing business with Castro's Cuba.

Her renowned parties were noted not only for her chic guests but also for the novelties Maxwell devised to keep them amused.

The American electoral system includes a complicated campaign finance regime that was devised to keep Americans informed about who finances the media messages designed to sway them.

His mature imagery deals at least peripherally, subliminally, with the large and small ploys that human beings devise to keep afloat under the rain of damage that life spreads around so liberally.

In this sense the basic package is primarily a policy devise to keep regions accountable to national standards.

Iraq's defiance, if allowed to stand, will encourage other budding Saddams and badly undermine confidence in all the nuclear, chemical and biological arms-control treaties that Iraq has broken and that were devised to help keep some order in a dangerous world.

Calorie-conscious eaters have devised techniques to keep themselves from going overboard at parties.

In 1982, Mr. Greenspan was chairman of a similar commission that devised ways to keep Social Security solvent, and Congress accepted most of the recommendations in 1983.