Sentence examples for government was devised from inspiring English sources

At Pentecost in 1220 the first general chapter of the order was held at Bologna, and a system of democratic representative government was devised.

While the government was devising criteria to determine what constituted a "moderate" Muslim, it was violating its own standards by creating, funding and promoting groups whose version of Islam fit neatly with its political agenda.

The Haitian government is devising a long-range reconstruction and development plan before a donors conference set for March 31 at the United Nations.

In Berau, for example, the district government is devising its own REDD strategy with help from the Nature Conservancy, an American NGO that provided your correspondent with his aerial view of Kalimantan.

A1 Plan to Maintain Blood Supply The federal government is devising a plan to alleviate any blood shortages in the New York City area that could be caused by new restrictions on donors who might have been exposed to mad cow disease in Europe.

As a result, foreign governments are devising clever strategies to shut out American businesses and workers.

This was because they recognised that the government's detention scheme was "devised in the face of a public emergency, and as an attempt to reconcile the need to protect the UK public against terrorism with the obligation not to send the applicants back to countries where they faced a real risk of ill-treatment".

One option would be to return to the system of government-issued money that was devised by the American colonists, revived by Abraham Lincoln during the Civil War, and used by other countries at various times and places around the world.

The Public-Private Investment Program, in which the government invested alongside private asset managers, was devised in a matter of weeks.

The poll was devised by Gibraltar's government and was not legally binding on Britain.

Scotland's new freestyle curriculum was devised under Labour, but the SNP government chose to press ahead with it.