Sentence examples for was devised to keep from inspiring English sources

The American electoral system includes a complicated campaign finance regime that was devised to keep Americans informed about who finances the media messages designed to sway them.

A plan was devised to keep Nick at home until the last possible moment and then to transport him to a hospital, where an informal protocol had been set up to help him become an organ donor.

It was devised to keep candidates from campaigning in Florida, where the primary is set for Jan . 29 and Michigan, which is trying to move its contest to Jan . 15

Costa Rica's so-called squatter law was devised to keep huge landowners, such as those still found in South America, from holding vast territories that are not used for productive purposes.

In most ancient Greek city states, women could not own property, and so a system was devised to keep ownership within the male-defined family line.

Rafts of ultra-specific targets were devised to keep track of performance.

The statute is akin to the "trading with the enemy" laws that were devised to keep Americans from doing business with Castro's Cuba.

That system, don't forget, is devised to keep people on Facebook by giving them what they want, not necessarily what the politicos or news organizations may want them to see.

An elaborate set of rules and customs has been devised to keep the beasts at bay: there are watchtowers, warning bells and amber flags and robes, and anything red ("the bad color") must be buried.

For a time, it was a troublesome destroyer of crops and ornamental plants, but then, in many of the eastern areas, ways were devised to keep its populations at relatively low levels — without large-scale spraying.

First, the data function d x,y) is devised to keep the regions with better contrast in either of under or over exposed images, i.e., d ( x, y ) = I u ( x, y ), if C ( I u ( x, y ) ) > C ( I o ( x, y ) ) I o ( x, y ), otherwise (14).