Sentence examples for devising means from inspiring English sources
"Brilliant and innovative," in Mr. Lichty's estimation, Mr. Giovannoni was harvesting raw Arbitron data on public-radio listenership and devising means of analyzing it.
"Heaven has not only given us the capacity of greater enjoyment, but the talent of devising means to prevent the evils that are liable to arise therefrom; and it becomes us, 'with thanksgiving, to make the most of them,' " he wrote.
The results have implications for the study of evaluation biases in BSC as well as in other performance measurement systems, and for devising means to mitigate them.
In their wide-ranging research on Alzheimer's disease, scientists have made enormous strides in devising means to detect and diagnose Alzheimer's in its earliest stages.
It means facing a system that does not lend its self to your needs and devising means by which you change that system".
Beginning with Mississippi in 1890, legislatures began to ratify new constitutions, amendments or electoral laws that disfranchised African-American voters, devising means such as poll taxes, literacy tests and residential requirements that passed Supreme Court review but worked against poor blacks and many poor whites.
Noguchi devised means of cultivating microorganisms that had never before been grown in the test tube.
They also appear at a time when the need to devise means to improve America's tarnished international image, particularly in the Islamic world, appears pressing.
By E. B. White The New Yorker, August 5, 1933 P. 5 Mr. Lippmann says it is not easy to devise means of restraining speculation in stocks.
Perkins also experimented with high-pressure steam boilers and in 1823 devised means to attain working steam pressure of 800 1400 psi.
On the contrary, the company members are forever challenging themselves to devise means of portraying the extraordinary through ordinary, dust-gathering items you might find in the corners of your garage or attic: a dressmaker's dummy, knitted afghans, a stepladder, a pair of stick horses, a taxidermy wolf's head and a rod festooned with discarded chintz curtains.
