Under cover of what seems a light read – woman works at a toy company devising new toys for teenage girls – Thomas unravels a dense story of an underground society of rebels.
Imagine further that governments, development organisations and civil society groups devised joint strategies to support meeting those bite size goals in specific countries.
Every society must devise means for the satisfaction of basic human needs for food, shelter, clothing, and affiliation, for coping with interpersonal conflict within the group and treatment of outsiders, for dealing with critical events such as birth, coming of age, and death.
In the mid seventeenth century John Wilkins, the first secretary of England's Royal Society, was asked by the society to devise a "universal standard of measure".
Also, following the concerns regarding the possibility of dissemination of malignant cells during the morcellation process [7], we considered the information provided by national and international societies [8, 9] and devised a leaflet explaining the risks of morcellation.
Secular society has still not devised rites of passage to welcome people in to the world and usher them out of it.
She reveals monogamous marriage to be nothing more than an artificial construct, he went on, devised by society to keep people docile and in their place.
The title they devised for the society's program on Sunday evening at Alice Tully Hall might have been trite — "Pianos/Pianists: A Celebration of the Keyboard" — but the concept was imaginative.
He warns that if society doesn't devise economic solutions to social networks, there could be "serious social blowback".
And because the concept of money was foreign, the weavers' society had to devise how to compensate members with alternatives.
