Sentence examples for quick to devise from inspiring English sources

When, travelling south to Cairo, he heard rumour of ruins hidden among the mountains of Wadi Musa, he was quick to devise a ruse: 'I pretended to have made a vow to have slaughtered a goat in honour of Haroun (Aaron), whose tomb I knew was situated in the extremity of the valley,' he wrote, 'and by this stratagem I thought that I should have the means of seeing the valley on the way to the tomb.'.

But kids (read: younger, more creative adults) have long retreated into the corners of their imaginations to devise some quick company.

The aim of the present study was to devise a relatively quick, simple and landmark-independent 3D imaging-based technique that might potentially be valuable as a diagnostic tool for orthognathic and cosmetic surgical planning for patients with soft-tissue asymmetry.

What the apes lack is a foreign policy, but they are forced to devise one, double-quick, when a human, of all things, strays into their domain.

Work went at a quick pace to meet deadlines; his team had to devise a theme for the new DS in time for a late December presentation, and by February 2007, most specifications for a chipset had to be completed.

Traditionally a new course would take about 5 years to devise, but "increasingly they're coming very much quicker," says physicist Sally Jordan.

The PISA test, for example, assesses pupils' ability to devise strategies for tackling unfamiliar problems, from working out the quickest travel time across a city to dealing with a new digital device.

Sutherland, whose career has involved stints in quick succession at household names including Mars, Superdrug and most recently B&Q, bristles when it is suggested that launching an opinion poll shows his inability to devise a strategy for himself.

Ms. Lagarde has said she wants "a real fix, not a quick fix" to Greece's indebtedness and has held back the release of the next installment of €31 billion, or $40 billion, to Athens, hoping to force the Europeans to devise a lasting solution.

They write that while the company has made quick work of capturing almost 30 percent of the e-book market in two years, the rise of digital reading has increased the pressure on it to devise a winning long-term strategy against Amazon, which still dominates e-book sales.

While the company has made quick work of capturing almost 30 percent of the e-book market in two years, the rise of digital reading has increased the pressure on Barnes & Noble to devise a winning long-term strategy against Amazon, which still dominates in e-book sales.