In medicine, checklists were first devised to help prevent infections and then to make surgery safer.
This was first devised about 432 bce by the astronomer Meton of Athens.
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.
During the 1950s, when the O-level and A-level examinations were first devised, they were offered exclusively by universities.
The hawala system was first devised as a form of medieval commerce to allow transactions between South Asia and the Middle East.
"ONE country, two systems", the formula supposed to guarantee Hong Kong's autonomy under Chinese sovereignty, was first devised for Taiwan.
It was first devised by Keynes while working as an unpaid policy adviser to the British Treasury during the early 1940s.
d. "High concept" marketing -- i.e., a premise that can be succinctly communicated -- was first devised by Steven Spielberg with "Jaws".
