Sentence examples for once devised from inspiring English sources

(A printable example is the stage direction he once devised: "Enter Scrotum, a wrinkled retainer").

The format came naturally to Mrs. Sadowsky, a short-story writer who once devised questions for the 70's game show "Card Sharks".

My friend Ross and I once devised a scheme whereby we would have elaborate cards printed, to post through front doors, saying, "We have today very much enjoyed your front garden".

Bill James once devised a method of determining how many no-hitters a pitcher could be expected to have pitched based on how often he allowed hits and how many games he started.

The remarks were widely publicized in Britain throughout Thursday and drew some sharp remarks from commentators such as Lord Norman Tebbit, an arch-conservative who once devised the so-called "cricket test" to determine the loyalties of Pakistani immigrants by the way they behaved at cricket matches between English and visiting Pakistani teams.

Wonder cabinets were meant to encapsulate the world in microcosm: Philipp Hainhofer, the Augsburg collector and envoy, who provided marvels to various courtly cabinets, including the Saxons, once devised a wood cabinet topped by a Seychelle nut, in which objects were methodically arranged to represent the animal, plant and mineral worlds, the four continents and various human activities.

She said her father was clever with ropes and used them often, creating handholds for boxes and once devising a rope pulley to hang a picture high on the wall.

If all the credit card payments cannot be done at once, devise a plan and negotiate with the lender and ask for a reduction of interest amount.

Second, rather than considering all regulators at once, we devised a method that starts with single regulators, and then moves to pairs and higher-order combinations.

Deutsch had, it seems, come up with the idea for a quantum computer twice: once in devising a way to test the validity of the Many Worlds Interpretation, and a second time, emerging from the complexity-theory conversation, with evidenced argument supporting Many Worlds as a consequence.

Once evolution has devised a good thing, it sticks with it.