Sentence examples for personally devised from inspiring English sources

WHAT compels actors whose work is customarily an ensemble or collective activity to venture out onto an empty stage and face an audience quite alone, and often with material personal and personally devised?

Mr. Johnston calls his own, personally devised format "The Montana Radio Cafe — Front Porch Radio Served Fresh Daily".

It also alleges that senior executives including Zuckerberg personally devised and managed the scheme, individually deciding which companies would be cut off from data or allowed preferential access.

Henry VIII personally devised a plan to form at least thirteen new dioceses so that most counties had one based on a former monastery (or more than one), though this scheme was only partly carried out.

That message credited Petraeus with personally devising and then successfully implementing a novel formula for turning around the Iraq war.

A recent approach to inquiry learning emphasises the involvement of learners in devising personally meaningful scientific investigations by setting research questions that match their interests, defining and carrying out their own methodological design, collecting and analysing data, and sharing and reflecting on their research (Anastopoulou et al. 2012).

"The first question we ask is, 'How much are you personally contributing to a cause?' " This question is devised to separate meaningful philanthropic gestures from publicity stunts by stars who want to improve their images.

Culbertson established contract bridge as the leading card game and himself as its principal authority by a succession of tournament victories and by various maneuvers devised to publicize contract bridge and Culbertson personally.

The staffers devised a provision that made the Secretary of Defense personally responsible for preventing recidivism.

When one Union general after another proved unequal to the task of leading the army, Lincoln personally elevated Grant, who, with William Tecumseh Sherman and Secretary of War Edwin Stanton, devised the strategy of "hard war" to defeat the slaveholders' Confederacy.

The film presents a highly fictionalized biography of Themistocles, who leads the Athenian fleet at the Battle of Salamis, by virtue of his status as the hero of Marathon, having devised the Athenians' winning offensive strategy in that battle, and personally loosing the arrow that fatally wounded Darius (neither of which historically occurred).