Sentence examples for left to devise from inspiring English sources

The result, Sir John confirms, is that junior officers like Steve Barker were left to devise their own tactics without the necessary supervision and control.

Under the accord, each country was left to devise its own commitment or, as it is officially known, "nationally determined contribution".

They were left to devise their own entertainment, inventing games and pastimes by contriving swings and makeshift carts, drawing on walls and flagstones, playing dice and holding imaginary tea parties on the pavement.

President Bush has pledged $100 million a year for five years to reduce the backlogs, but the agency has been left to devise its own plans to raise some of that money.

So each country has been left to devise its own system.American markets have, by and large, pioneered those developments in recent years that have made the regulators' job much tougher rapid innovation, internationalisation, and the broadening range of businesses in which individual firms take part.

Johnson was initially left to devise a Reconstruction policy without legislative intervention, as Congress was not due to meet again until December 1865.

The officials said that it would be left to the states to devise many aspects of a new system, including requirements for identifying livestock.

With the Bush administration stepping up enforcement, the immigration agency has been left scrambling to devise procedures to deal with children who, by law, do not fall under its jurisdiction because they are citizens.

Miliband victory opens the door to two wholly unwelcome things: many more months of threat and disillusion – or a simple refusal to go any further, leaving parliament to devise and install its own statutory press regulation regime if it so wishes: an Ofpress to match Ofcom.

They cited the difficulty of undertaking integration when there were few or no examples of particular ways of combining methods in the literature, leaving them to devise new approaches 'on the job'.

so I have only my imagination to work with, which left to its own devises, conjures vacuum cleaners and (for some reason) high fashion.