Sentence examples for was devised to play from inspiring English sources

The prime-time portion of the spectacle was devised to play down race and highlight Mr. Obama's presidential stature: Stevie Wonder sang "Signed, Sealed, Delivered I'm Yours," but a group of retired generals and Susan Eisenhower, a Russian affairs expert who is the granddaughter of President Dwight D. Eisenhower, waxed lyrical about the senator's readiness for the Oval Office.

Like the Nazca Lines in Peru, the ellipses can't really be read except from above, but on the ground their curves — like everything at the yards, expensively crafted — are devised to play off all the hard edges and provide seating.

Though the rules of the Hurlingham Club of England (which was founded in 1886) were at first used in the United States, in 1888 a system of handicapping players was devised to equalize tournament play.

The coroner said that Hughes's family were concerned "that because he batted so successfully throughout the morning session of play, a plan was devised to try and intimidate Phillip with short pitched balls bouncing near his head and upper body".

The 1986 law was devised to be revenue-neutral.

Governors were devised to prevent this.

Crude methods were devised to lift it to the surface.

A formula can be devised to distribute according to usage.

Methods were devised to address two questions.

Increasingly, physicians, who have been told they can be a powerful prod to healthy behavior change in their patients, are devising ways to play that role: they are incorporating nutritional and weight-loss counselors into their practices and honing their own roles as motivational agents for increased exercise and weight loss.

The show's title, Grey's Anatomy, was devised as a play on words: a reference to both Henry Gray's medical textbook, Gray's Anatomy, and the title character Dr. Meredith Grey (Ellen Pompeo).