Sentence examples for he first devised from inspiring English sources
Anyhow, Christmas cards are a convenience, as the Englishman Henry Cole understood when he first devised this form of standardized holiday greeting in the 19th century.
Maybe it was during one of those evenings, as he was solving a stranger's problems under the pasty kitchen lights, listening to his music on a Discman, that he first devised his plan to become a hermit.
Given the furor he feared it would unleash, it is not surprising that Charles Darwin sat on his "great idea," refusing to publish "The Origin of Species" until 1859, more than 20 years after he first devised the theory of evolution.
The earlier films continue to appear on DVD, and no doubt there are scholars who have seen the whole corpus, but in order even to begin to grasp the scope of Marker's career, it is necessary to turn to Immemory, the labyrinthine and partly autobiographical CD-Rom that he first devised in 1997, and which has recently been released with updated content and format.
He had become involved in a dozen causes, including the Society for the Prevention of Pauperism, a platform from which he hoped to launch a plan that he had first devised during the Panic of 1809: he wanted to start a savings bank, the first in the nation.
In the Agnes Caris and Karl Leichtman Studio, old Cunningham films were shown, and former members of the company in panel discussions described how Cunningham, his mind restlessly moving on, had kept changing his style while sometimes returning to features he had first devised decades before.
Glynn Purnell (Purnell's) makes a coconut risotto (from coconut milk) that he serves with lobster pistachio kebabs – a recipe first devised by three-Michelin-starred Le Jardin des Sens in Montpellier.
When George Lucas first devised the idea for Star Wars he was turned down by several studios before 20th Century Fox finally, and somewhat reluctantly, picked it up.
Those conditions have indeed changed greatly since the test was first devised.
World Water Day was first devised at the UN Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro almost 20 years ago.
When the land campaign was first devised, American commanders envisioned a far more deliberate assault.
