Sentence examples for was first devised by from inspiring English sources

d. "High concept" marketing -- i.e., a premise that can be succinctly communicated -- was first devised by Steven Spielberg with "Jaws".

It was first devised by Keynes while working as an unpaid policy adviser to the British Treasury during the early 1940s.

That system — based on a complicated scoring method that relied on the processing of reams of data — was first devised by an outside consultant, Ken Strasma.

The idea of a personal carbon allowance was first devised by the environmental writer and former chairman of the Soil Association, David Fleming, in 1996, and was floated again in a speech by Miliband in July of last year.

The concept of lock-in was first devised by economists in the 1990s to describe how technologies and technological systems tend to follow specific paths that are difficult and costly to escape, thanks to scale and learning effects, user-friendliness, and support of governments and private interest groups.

A recent study by the California Milk Processor Board indicates that the ads have been instrumental in stemming an erosion in domestic milk sales that seemed pretty much unstoppable back in the early 1990's, when "Got milk?" was first devised by Goodby, Silverstein & Partners in San Francisco, a unit of the Omnicom Group.

Some of these narrative twists were first devised by the librettist Jules-Henri Vernoy de Saint-Georges and the choreographer Joseph Mazilier when they staged "Le Corsaire" (to music by Adolphe Adam) for the Paris Opera in 1856.

Many features of what is now referred to as the "Chicago Method" of epigraphy were first devised by Breasted during the 1905-7 expedition.

It was in Los Angeles that living wage ordinances and local hiring requirements for projects receiving public funds were first devised by labor and enacted by local governments.

This was first devised about 432 bce by the astronomer Meton of Athens.

During the 1950s, when the O-level and A-level examinations were first devised, they were offered exclusively by universities.