Sentence examples for were first devised from inspiring English sources

In medicine, checklists were first devised to help prevent infections and then to make surgery safer.

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

The trailers were first devised as a temporary solution to a spike in homeless sex offenders after the residency limits were imposed.

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.

Considerable suspicion has been aroused over the role of Grant Thornton because the firm was Parmalat's principal auditor through most of the 1990's, when many of the financing schemes to mask Parmalat's financial troubles were first devised.

The elaborate initial letters that are found in nearly all later decorated manuscripts were first devised in the British Isles, and the decorative vocabulary of later continental illumination owed much to English and Irish invention.

A co-creator and performer, Rachel Maza, says when they were first devising the play in 2011 they quickly realised it was impossible to talk about the events of 2004 without first understanding the island's grim history.

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

Those conditions have indeed changed greatly since the test was first devised.

World Water Day was first devised at the UN Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro almost 20 years ago.

When the land campaign was first devised, American commanders envisioned a far more deliberate assault.