Sentence examples for devised to take from inspiring English sources

The system is devised to take account of the specifics of a particular event rather than the specifics of a particular agency.

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.

The case, which was expressly devised to take down the Affordable Care Act, centers on a provision that gives individuals who fall within a certain income threshold — roughly above poverty but below wealth — tax subsidies to pay for health insurance.

Since then, justification without which the theory would have been impossibly complicated has been provided in the sense that means have been devised to take account of the interactions whose effect is indeed considerably weaker than might have been supposed.

Ultimately, these are sentences that seem meant to be skimmed, not read — devised to take up room on the page so the carefully constructed elements of the plot aren't revealed too quickly.

(The banquet camera was devised to take portraits at banquets and was a godsend for photographers, who could take group pictures of 30 or 50 people and sell copies to each one).

But Republicans devised answers to take the edge off: a watered-down prescription-drug bill, pledges on Social Security, action for the cameras on corporate abuse.

Scientists are devising ways to take a sample of someone's skin when they are young, store it for decades, and then clone it for when they are older.

As the federal government steps to the center of the financial crisis, devising plans to take ownership of hundreds of billions of dollars' worth of bad mortgages, a pair of simple questions rise to the fore: Will this intervention finally be enough to restore order?

The number of air-monitoring stations has been increased to 12 from 7, and quality controls have been devised to govern how samples are taken and how data are analyzed and submitted, said Pat Evangelista, the World Trade Center coordinator for the environmental agency.

In this paper, the proposed scheme is devised to detect such events and take appropriate decisions under the supervision of SPC to enhance the security of the power system.