Sentence examples for devised to try from inspiring English sources

Government systems have been devised to try to save Sapelo Island's Geechee culture.

He had been battling the highly deadly disease for four years, using a treatment he devised to try to prolong his life, essentially turning his body into an extension of his research.

Until the October 2008 banking crisis there were no restrictions on the way bankers were paid, but rules were devised to try to link payouts to performance when it emerged that banks would still pay bonuses despite receiving taxpayer bailouts.

She said it was too late to turn the clock back and salvage the LCP, which was devised to try to extend the positive experiences of dying hospice patients into the hospital setting.

The coroner said that Hughes's family were concerned "that because he batted so successfully throughout the morning session of play, a plan was devised to try and intimidate Phillip with short pitched balls bouncing near his head and upper body".

For more than an hour, the bipartisan group, which included current House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif ., was given a virtual tour of the CIA's overseas D-Calif . sites and the harsh techniques interrogators had devised to try to make their prisoners talk.

But the Jets will move on, devising ways to try to mitigate his loss, and so, too, will Revis.

As The Economist went to press, its prospects were uncertain, and NASA engineers were devising plans to try to get the failed reaction wheels working again.

She took thousands of calls around the clock, talking despondent farmers down from the ledge and devising strategies to try to save their farms.

In 1960 he became head of the agency's viral-disease-surveillance unit, and he devised a program to try to eliminate smallpox in Africa.

They're falling over themselves" to try to devise ways to entice customers back.