Sentence examples for devised to try and from inspiring English sources

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".

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.

Taken as a whole, the systemic challenges to optimizing medication safety were numerous and wide-ranging resulting in workarounds being devised to try to mitigate the impact of a given system barrier.

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.

So Stokes and Barber had three impossible tasks: to tame the corporate baronies which operated as virtually separate companies; to try and devise a coherent model plan covering every type of vehicle, from the Mini to the heaviest of trucks; and, most impossible of all, to get the – permanently rebellious – workforce to work with the – often inadequate – management of individual factories.

"They have to make choices between Android and Microsoft and then ultimately to try and devise further services on top of that.

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.

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 then devised policies and personas to try to appeal to each one -- only to watch dumbfounded as their microtrend sandcastles were washed away by the macrotrend tidal wave of the Obama campaign.