According to a representative, Orla Ralph, the firm devised its unit-linked serenita fund to get around inheritance tax.
To counter the threat of home-made bombs, known as "improvised explosive devices," or I.E.D.'s, the Army devised a new unit called Task Force I.E.D. to find and destroy the weapons, and to train conventional units in specialized techniques.
Then there is Europe, still a "geographical expression," a federation without a political head, a real foreign policy or military unity, but acting more as an economic unit devised to help its farmers, unions and public servants.
Initial public offering fever was raging at the time, so Edelman, one of the few public relations firms with a dedicated new-media unit, devised a timely ploy: the company sent 100,000 e-mail messages announcing that "a hot new chip" was coming on the market and directing people to a temporary Web site, www.new-chip.com.
(One foreign supplier, Hewlett-Packard's Autonomy unit, devised an online public-opinion monitoring system for the Chinese market in 2006 and has had some takers in government).Special report A giant cage Cat and mouse Small beginnings The art of concealment Ours, all ours Masters of the cyber-universe To each their own A curse disguised as a blessing?
Hence, it might appear more pragmatic to devise additional units with explanatory and predictive utility, for instance interbreeding groups, ecological groups, smallest phylogenetic groups worthy of recognition, to assess what processes crucially maintain biodiversity[ 60, 84, 85].
Note that the geographical groupings above are only used as practical units devised to achieve sufficient sample sizes.
Note that we do not wish to give too strong a meaning to the geographical groupings above and, instead, see them as practical units devised to achieve sufficient sample sizes for the estimation of population summary statistics.
Designers of public spaces have devised a maximum average unit size that is, they've figured out how much space a person takes up, and how little of it he or she can abide.
Designers of public spaces have devised a maximum average unit size — that is, they've figured out how much space a person takes up, and how little of it he or she can abide.
In this paper, a small scale passive electric power generation unit was devised for generating electricity from the heat available in the solar pond.
