Neither collectively, nor individually, have the top officials who are responsible for devising policy responses to the supposed threat of cyberwar been able to adequately define what it is or whether it even exists.
In 2006 he became the guild's master, responsible for devising a programme of fortnightly talks.
One team, for example, was responsible for devising a new way to make a major ingredient for one of the company's most important products.
His weakness is that he was responsible for devising the policy that has caused the Lib Dems most grief in government – the U-turn over university tuition fees.
Since Mr. Fischer is the only credited director, he must have been largely responsible for devising the fluid, imaginative movements of the 16 actors.
In Anhui province, one of the pilot regions, the team responsible for devising a way to calculate green GDP consists mainly of environmentalists rather than economists.
But these cases go well beyond meanness to a depth of petty cruelty so shaming that those responsible for devising them should be deemed unworthy of holding a job in the public sector.
Dekker was partly responsible for devising the street entertainment to celebrate the entry of James I into London in 1603; he provided the lord mayor's pageant in 1612, 1627, 1628, and 1629.
In his post as director of the White House Office of Homeland Security, Mr. Ridge is responsible for devising a strategy to protect the country against another attack and then respond immediately and effectively should another attack occur.
Chet Atkins, who has died of cancer aged 77, was the first virtuoso guitarist in country music and a record producer largely responsible for devising the Nashville Sound, which put a new polish on country music in the 60s and 70s.
