Sentence examples for seek to devise a from inspiring English sources

After the November election in the United States, Mr. Harper said he would seek to devise a continental climate change pact with the Obama administration.

Legal Services is currently seeking to devise a workout plan for Ms. Nathan's debt problems and, citing possible deceptive lending practices, challenging foreclosure proceedings filed against her.

He learned about questions of reference and semantics, and sought to devise a way of making philosophy into a science, with a standardized technical vocabulary -- a quest that he now thinks is futile.

The report comes as the Bush administration seeks to devise a policy toward North Korea, which claims to be processing material for nuclear weapons and is thought by American intelligence services to possess at least two atomic bombs.

But because 70percentt of the iron ore China imports comes from the three companies — Rio Tinto, BHP Billiton and Vale — Beijing has sought to devise a strategy to ensure cheaper supplies.

Hikma Pharmaceuticals has promised to put in place "concrete steps to restrict the supply of its products for unintended uses" following the disclosure by the legal action charity Reprieve that a wholly owned subsidiary in the US had sold injectable phenobarbital to the Arkansas prison service which was seeking to devise a new way of killing its death-row inmates.

Nations there are seeking to devise a system that would ban the cross-border sale of rough diamonds unless they have a passport denoting weight, value and provenance, making it harder for a country to export more diamonds than it can prove it produced legally.

We sought to devise a "hybrid" approach to the second stage when aortic outflow is expected to remain unobstructed.

We sought to devise a combined endoscopic and percutaneous approach to drainage of organized pancreatic necrosis, with the primary goal of preventing the formation of chronic pancreaticocutaneous fistulae, and secondary goals of avoiding the need for surgical necrosectomy and reducing endoscopic resource utilization.

Instead they sought to devise a "banal character" with "no extraordinary means of action".

We sought to devise a way of removing outliers in the flow vector field.