Sentence examples for term devised from inspiring English sources

"Udentity" refers to a term devised by the iconoclastic composer-inventor Harry Partch, a kindred spirit.

After 1908 Potresov became a leader of the so-called liquidationists (a pejorative term devised by Lenin), who advocated political activity by legal means, in contrast to the conspiratorial methods of the Bolsheviks.

Enter the self-deprecating boast known as the "humblebrag," a term devised by the comedian Harris Wittels, a writer for the NBC series "Parks and Recreation," who collects hundreds of these cockeyed chestnuts on his Twitter feed and in his new book, both called "Humblebrag".

The deeper challenge to Western liberal democracy has emerged from the East Asian region.[4] In the 1990s, the debate revolved around the notion of 'Asian values', a term devised by several Asian officials and their supporters for the purpose of challenging Western-style civil and political freedoms.

The Christian Church, according to Jerome's views, is the community of those chosen by God for salvation and is not defined in legal terms devised by a rigid, ministerial structure.

These terms — devised by the journalist Malcolm Gladwell in his book Tipping Point, which explores how ideas and products spread through society — refer to the sort of people that know everybody and everybody knows, people whose personality is such that we pay attention to what they say.

The first used special military terms devised in the native language, the second didn't and just used the native vocabulary already spoken.

In effect, that would amount to containment in the classic meaning of that term as devised by George Kennan for dealing with the Soviet Union after World War II.

In 1928, after Calvin Coolidge, perhaps feeling pressured by Hoover's obvious Presidential ambitions, announced that he would not be running for a second term, Hoover devised a notably modern Presidential campaign, with a professional advertising expert and a pollster on staff.

In fact, all formal accounts of the semantics of theoretical terms are devised to apply to axiomatic scientific theories.

I have attempted to coin a term to represent oppression against lesbian, gay, bisexual and asexual people within a similar construction, though each term I devise seems rather awkward at best, terms like "sexual identitism," "sexualism" or "sexualitism".