Sentence examples for devised to play from inspiring English sources

The group also wrote to the Food and Drug Administration, characterizing the advice as part of a misinformation campaign devised to play down the risks of implants, and urging health officials to put a stop to it.

"SMILF" has something to say about class, and it tends to say it, as it says most things, obliquely, with occasional lines devised to play to the back of the room.

The prime-time portion of the spectacle was devised to play down race and highlight Mr. Obama's presidential stature: Stevie Wonder sang "Signed, Sealed, Delivered I'm Yours," but a group of retired generals and Susan Eisenhower, a Russian affairs expert who is the granddaughter of President Dwight D. Eisenhower, waxed lyrical about the senator's readiness for the Oval Office.

All told, Payne's ninety-minute play is sectioned in three parts and 31 scenes, devised to be played by a cast of four playing twenty characters.

Though the rules of the Hurlingham Club of England (which was founded in 1886) were at first used in the United States, in 1888 a system of handicapping players was devised to equalize tournament play.

She met high-achieving women who, afraid to put men off, devise strategies to play down their affluence.

With plays devised to avoid the Raiders' Warren Sapp and Ted Washington, the Broncos will game-plan their way to a victory.

So with only four teams remaining, the league devised a plan to play the first two months of the 2008-9 seagainstainsteamsms from the American Basketball Association, a new league that several C.B.A owners called a joke.

Although I pretended to play, devising games with other mah-jongg daughters, I never learned the rules.

But at Indiecade, an independent games showcase at the show, developers devised a variety of ways to play with no controller at all, making these digital games charmingly analog.

One 1922 newspaper article described Goebel's knee brace this way: "To enable Goebel to play, the Michigan trainers devised a steel brace – a hinge.