Sentence examples for he was devising from inspiring English sources

Doug Herzog, the president of the USA Network, said he was devising plans to give USA a stronger identity.

Let me be clear: I am not suggesting that Mr. Libeskind was cynically appealing to the beliefs of public officials when he was devising his symbolic vocabulary.

In 2009, as he was devising his Afghanistan strategy, the president had on his nightstand Gordon Goldstein's book "Lessons in Disaster: McGeorge Bundy and the Path to War in Vietnam".

One day, she was startled to see an elaborate program that he was devising on her computer, with rows and columns labeled Baby 1, Baby 2, Private School, and so forth.

Mr. Cheney met with Kenneth L. Lay, who resigned this week as Enron's chairman, while he was devising energy policy last spring and Enron executives met with Mr. Cheney's staff four times.

But he denied that he was devising the layoff plan as a bargaining chip to extract concessions from union leaders who have so far resisted the administration's other proposals to cut about $250 million in state work force costs from the budget, part of a plan to close a gap of more than $9 billion.

He is devising blueprints for responsive houses.

Today he is devising cash-management procedures for La Clínica de La Raza of Oakland, Calif., a large community-based consortium of clinics.

Along with his employees, civic groups and public-spaces gurus, he is devising strategies to "activate" streets with outdoor seating and ground-level retail stores.

Whenever he leaves, though, his legacy is already secure: he is devising a recruiting plan so Mr. Nilekani can lure more Americans to Bangalore.

He is devising a carefully calibrated package of reforms based partly on diplomacy and partly on giving greater leeway to judges in the UK.