Sentence examples for devised to replace from inspiring English sources

NC-17 is the adults-only rating devised to replace the X, which had come to be equated with pornography.

The Senate bill would preserve the existing community school boards "until there is something devised to replace them," said John McArdle, a Senate spokesman.

Micropower systems have a niche, but some other scheme must be devised to replace the electric energy we now get from nuclear power and coal.RICHARD HILLOld Town, MaineSIR You ignore two key factors regarding micropower.

At a recent public meeting, Mr Laguna vowed to work hand in hand with the "people's power"—chavista jargon for the local communal council, a form of grass-roots organisation the president has devised to replace "bourgeois" institutions.The extra attention from Caracas could be welcome.

Although there are clear uses of biological models and concepts in social-systems work, it may be fair to say that the greatest single impetus to development of this area was widening interest after World War II in cybernetics the study of human control functions and of the electrical and mechanical systems that could be devised to replace or reinforce them.

At the time when the World Trade Center was planned, new building codes were being devised to replace the 1938 version that was still in place.

The shutdown, planned from next Friday to Feb. 28, is part of a complicated game of musical trains that transit officials have devised to allow crews to replace sets of movable tracks where southbound E trains turn around for their trip north.

Aviator Charles Lindbergh tried to cheat death by devising ways to replace human organs with machines.

Regulatory officials will have to devise ways to replace decisions made on traditional end points with ones made on cell-based findings, Andersen says.

Eight years ago, an organization called Ban the Box challenged the notion of the so-called long box, the 6-by-12-inch package that was devised to hold music CD's, which were then replacing albums.

The new law is devised to offer fewer financial incentives to asylum seekers by replacing the cash benefits system with the voucher system.