Sentence examples for seeking to devise from inspiring English sources

It is being prolonged by politicians seeking to devise an end that will favour their reputations.

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.

The World Bank, seeking to devise strategies to lessen the burden on cities, is preparing a report on the urban poor in Central America.

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.

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.

He also emphasises the practical importance of seeking to devise reductions for as many properties as possible: that ambition is "the natural and proper ambition of the scientists" (1933, p. 268).

Indeed, Mr. Esser had sought to devise his own merger with Vivendi.

American scientists who sought to devise one in the 1940s and early 1950s thus called their dream weapon "the Super".

While he fervently embraced music's unassailable affective nature, Wolpe no less doggedly sought to devise theoretical bases for composition.

That urgency, it seemed to many of us, was scarcely reflected in the tortuous arrangements that the international community sought to devise to end the violence.

Designers also may seek to devise more effective ways of helping us to edit the surge of digital content and to solve the security problems it creates.