Sentence examples for terms devised by from inspiring English sources

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.

"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.

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 the short-term however, the Toolkit devised by the Modernisation Agency [ 8] should facilitate standardisation of theatre utilization calculation.

He claimed the government had been left with little choice because of the terms of the procurement process devised by the previous Labour administration.

We need long-term resources, not more policies devised by non-Aboriginals".

To prove the point, Daniel Green, the editor of International Comet Quarterly, has drawn up a list of the exotic terms ("ice dwarf", "interplanetary small body", "icy planetesimal") devised by astronomers reluctant to use the word "planet" in connection with the distant snowball.