Randolph's band plays funk and R. & B., but the lap steel was devised in Hawaii, toward the end of the nineteenth century, using a Spanish guitar; its high, yawning sound (later controlled by pedals) became synonymous with country music by the nineteen-fifties.
These engineer-entrepreneurs devised intricate means toward a time-honored end, pursuing the standard modern media strategy: package the attention of viewers and readers into commodities that somebody pays for.
Toward that goal, we devised an approach to analyzing literary texts that distinguishes "thematic universals" from "literary universals".
I propose that a new electoral law be devised to move Iraq toward a completely district-based electoral system, like the American Congress, or a "mixed party list" system like that in Germany, in which some representatives are directly elected and other seats are allotted based on the parties' overall showing.
Monday and Tuesday, hundreds of public officials, experts and industry leaders from around the world will gather in Washington at the Carnegie Endowment's biannual non-proliferation conference, to discuss opportunities for controlling the most powerful – and terrible – technologies ever devised, and turning them toward peaceful uses alone.
To tackle this problem, the authors devised new objective functions toward increasing the average and minimum available cash in the system.
Consider the example recently presented on The Huffington Post by Dr. Dean Ornish, who wisely devised a program geared toward fighting chronic diseases through creating sustainable lifestyle changes that is now covered by Medicare.
Toward that end, I have devised a method for formulating bold, thought-provoking correlations without doing a stitch of research.
Mallory, he says, "was the inheritor of a complex of emotions and attitudes toward mountainous landscape, devised long before his birth, which largely predetermined his responses to it".
And the administration's first major venture into the peace process — a fruitless effort to persuade Israel to freeze construction of Jewish settlements in return for Arab gestures toward Israel — was devised largely by Mr. Obama and his chief of staff, Rahm Emanuel.
