Sentence examples for devising a statement from inspiring English sources

The nation's Roman Catholic bishops turned their attention today from the sexual abuse crisis to devising a statement to express moral reservations about going to war against Iraq.

As Russia's Parliament on Wednesday devised a statement on the subject, it fell to political outsiders to state the obvious.

The students' initiative in devising a doctoral student statement suggests that a transfer took place from the course context to the students' real institutional contexts.

Officials of the two agencies, which normally share responsibility for enforcing antitrust laws, are trying to devise a joint statement explaining how they will evaluate proposed collaborations by doctors and hospitals.

Put simply, my fear is that you can make all the speeches and policy statements you like – carefully devising a strategy on this and crafting a narrative on that – but what matters more are shallow considerations of looks, demeanour, speech patterns and biography.

The key question in devising a framework is '… to what extent can an apparatus of power produce statements, discourses and, consequently, all the forms of representation that may then derive from it?' [3], p 13].

Parties are long on lofty statements, short on anything resembling a policy, and the opposition spends more time squabbling than devising a common platform.

Devising a solution required some imagination.

They need help devising a plan forward.

Mr. Cohen and Mr. Greenfield then devised a three-part mission statement: to make the world's best ice cream, to run a financially successful company and to "make the world a better place".

In 1984 Naess and Sessions devised an eight-point statement, or platform, for deep ecology.