Sentence examples for may have conceived from inspiring English sources

He may have conceived the principle of the torsion balance independently of the French physicist Charles-Augustin de Coulomb.

The artists and architects may have conceived and designed the works, but it was a taciturn Finnish ice engineer called Sappo Makinen, helped by local builders and 120 international student volunteers, who actually made them.

You may have conceived a use for a coat hanger that will revolutionise life as we know it, but if you cannot articulate and deliver your idea in an interesting fashion, your coat hanger will remain in the cupboard.

As a prosecutor, Mr. Giuliani may have conceived the strategy of prosecuting mob bosses under an antiracketeering statute, as he claimed, "but so did several other people," write Jerry Capeci and Tom Robbins.

Ms. Faridany may have conceived the piece as a vehicle for herself -- program notes indicate the play is her first adaptation -- but the success of Ms. Falk's performance demonstrates that the play has a life beyond any single actress.

Since they are often regarded as infinite, moreover, some thinkers have doubted that they could be substances, as God is often thought of as the sole infinite substance (Descartes may have conceived of space as "indefinite" for this reason).

He may not have conceived the story first, but he has to make it part of himself before he can put it on the screen; he may not have written it, but it is he who tells it; and upon the force, the clearness and the art of his telling depends the value of the work.

Sebastian Faulks may well have conceived of it as a novel in his mind, as he has stated in recent interviews, but the truth is that A Possible Life is a gathering of five longish short stories, ranging from 40 pages to about 100, stories that span continents, centuries and subject matter, sometimes extremely skilfully, at other times less effectively.

Nor has any evidence surfaced to conclusively dismiss the conjecture that until humans began to domesticate animals some ten-to-seven thousand years ago, many societies may not have conceived of paternity.

Women who have been damned in the past for putting their trivial "social" concerns before the foetus they may however inadvertently have conceived are being assured that the decision whether to keep it is, indeed, more about wellbeing than a surrender to God's plan.

Another problem is that heifers that have conceived once may fail to conceive in the next breeding season, which increases production costs.