Sentence examples for first devised as from inspiring English sources

The trailers were first devised as a temporary solution to a spike in homeless sex offenders after the residency limits were imposed.

First devised as a gentleman's play thing in the 1820s, the push-powered hobby-horse quickly evolved to become the most classless form of transport, trundling by the millions along highways and byways all over the world.

Fifth, "the process by which the strategy and plan of action are devised, as well as their content, shall give particular attention to all vulnerable or marginalized groups" [ 11]; paragraph 43f.

When Mr. Axelrod first devised "Yes We Can" as a slogan during Mr. Obama's Senate campaign, the candidate resisted: it was a little corny for his taste.

In this section we briefly consider parameter estimation by maximum likelihood, as first devised by Fisher (1956).

The Schmidt and Hunter approach (1998), as first devised, seemed relatively straightforward.

Our work shows that autocatalytic sets as first devised by Dyson [ 9, 10] and Kauffman [ 1, 11] are theoretically possible despite previous criticisms and, perhaps more interesting, that chemical evolution in these systems can lead to the appearance of viable autocatalytic cores, thus opening the possibility for evolution by natural selection.

Indeed, the Victorians who first devised the athletic theology known as muscular Christianity espoused a necessary balance between competitive intensity and faithful humility.

A rigourous theory of probability as frequency was first devised by von Mises (1981), also defended by Reichenbach (1938) and beautifully expounded in van Lambalgen (1987).

The Belo Monte Dam project, formerly known as Kararaô, was first devised in the 1980's.

We first devised the best fit framework approach as a pragmatic methodology for research synthesis.