Sentence examples for had been devised to from inspiring English sources

Since the end of the 19th century, many and ingenious methods had been devised to prevent this from happening.

Ms. Kraeger said a security plan had been devised to guarantee the boy's safety if returned to Thailand.

The procedures had been devised to prevent the recurrence of past abuses, such as Nixon's use of the N.S.A. to spy on his political enemies.

If a plan could had been devised to end his life it would have been so rewarding for us all to gather with him for his final breath.

The eurozone was easily portrayed as a basket case in which failed EU policies were stirring up the very extremism the union had been devised to prevent.

But convention planners said the lectern had been devised to appear art deco, in the spirit of the Empire State Building.

Several methods have been devised to enable their removal.

Others have been devised to subdue insurgencies or political opposition.

A novel experimental procedure has been devised to achieve excellent reproducibility and consistency of purge data.

Various strategies have been devised to overcome or to diminish the force of such difficulties.

Government systems have been devised to try to save Sapelo Island's Geechee culture.