Sentence examples for devising career from inspiring English sources

Wollaston says workshops involve practising confident communication and devising career strategies, and learning how to cope with being the only woman in a group.

As an essayist, novelist and downtown personality, he chronicled his peculiar urban exploits — getting colonics and hanging with transsexuals — for The New York Press in the late 1990s; became a favorite performer at the Moth storytelling series, for his genital-warts-and-all oversharing; and devised a career as a foul-breathed amateur boxer, the Herring Wonder.

Language skills were an advantage when he began his career devising plans to market skin care products at Colgate-Palmolive.

Isolated examples like these were supposed to be the "tip of the iceberg," in the words of Kris Kobach, who has staked his career on devising onerous voter-I.D. requirements to combat a nonexistent problem.

The title fits, considering that O'Shaughnessy has made a career out devising systematic ways to invest successfully in equities.

Nathan Söderblom, in his prolific scholarly career, devised several classifications other than the principal one discussed above.

Now, in 1918, he's back in Munich and he has lost an arm, so he has to devise a new career.

Keen to find out what the journalists and writers that I look up to did to get to where they are today, I devised a mini career questionnaire and sent a few tweets and emails to get some answers.

The water gong was the first among a great many original sound-producing contraptions the son of an inventor would devise throughout his career.

He's spent significant chunks of a long comic career in windowless rooms devising skits and sketches for the likes of David Letterman, Chris Rock and Dana Carvey, and knows just how bland and regimented collaborative comedy can be.

One Friday late last month, Mr. Travis, a large, shy man who speaks softly and drives a small silver Toyota Prius, was explaining his method and how he had devised it while careering from lane to lane on the highway that connects Austin and Round Top.