Dr. Allawi's address came on the same day that United Nations officials announced that they would devise a system of proportional representation to elect members for the 275-member national assembly in a vote scheduled for January.
The school told her that it would devise a program so that she could continue to study, and she said, "What do you think I got pregnant for?" She convinced her mother that she wouldn't be comfortable going to school pregnant, "but I was comfortable hanging out with my friends after school".
The Environmental Protection Agency announced Thursday that it would devise stricter rules for the treatment and disposal of toxic wastewater used in natural gas drilling.
After the Newtown shooting, Wayne LaPierre, the rifle association's executive director, announced that it would devise a plan to put armed guards in every school.
Last year, every tax adviser was confident that Congress would devise some fix to the estate tax before the year was over.
The Financial Accounting Standards Board, the arbiter of corporate America's bookkeeping practices, announced this month that it would devise new rules for options accounting over the next year.
Mr. Cameron's Conservative-led coalition government has undertaken deeper budget cuts than the Obama administration, but Mr. Obama deflected suggestions of a philosophical divide, saying it was natural that they would devise their own remedies.
Who could foresee the amounts of money the Bobos would have to throw around and the ways, which Mr. Brooks describes so humorously, that marketeers would devise to relieve them of it?
Then, the expectation was that she would devise goals and crack heads until goals were achieved.
Loki, afraid, swore oaths that he would devise a scheme to cause the builder to forfeit the payment, whatever it would cost himself.
