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Since the bridge blocks much of the sunlight shining in the loft's direction, Brayton had to devise ways to warm the space from the inside.
Though abandoning the Benthamite system of beliefs, he failed to devise in its stead a coherent system of thought of his own.
That council officers carry out a detailed review of boarded-up shops and devise a system for monitoring them.
It would privately fund research to provide the information it needed to devise a response.
It took most of the next morning to figure out the glitch and devise a temporary fix.
Attempts to devise a technological solution to spam are ongoing, and admittedly difficult.
Anyone suffering from slipped discs or sciatica etc. should inform the therapist so she can devise a special program of exercises for them.
We have to devise ways in which serious matters are seriously and purposefully discussed.
I proposed that an attempt be made to bring the two images closer and to devise mechanisms by which this rapprochement could be achieved.
A pressure group is working with campaigners in Westbury to devise a new link road system for traffic to bypass the town.
Porter hoped to devise a system for both organic and conventional farmers to use as a cover crop.
To make things interesting, Damo suggested I devise a scoring system that awards points for certain achievements.
How might we devise a system that offers students a second chance but that doesn't obfuscate reality or entice students to drop out?
All persons of sound mind are competent to bequeath and devise real and personal estate, excepting infants and married women.
All the residue of my estate, including real and personal property, I give, devise, and bequeath to Earlham College.
Once you devise a weekly plan, write out each workout at least a day in advance.
Transfers of real property by inheritance or devise are not subject to the real estate excise tax.
It's hard to devise an argument that debunks the merit of his meticulous methodology.
Basically they had to devise methods of multiplication and division which only involved addition.
Then it is possible to devise a special slimming plan perfectly tailored to your personal situation.
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Examples from Classical Literature
Here have I been cudgeling my brains all day to devise means to retain a cook that will please you!
She cudgelled her brains to devise some means of getting the better of her captives.
It now remains for some inventor of Einsteinian proclivities to devise one in several dimensions!
The devise of the embassage from Lubber-land, whereof also a parte was made.
And they ate it uncooked, dipping it up in their hands, unable to devise any other way.
Nor call I devise what Apion would have said, had their habitation been at necropolis?
But it is equally easy to devise experiments which shall call these submerged sensations up again into supraliminal consciousness.
Not even the Gerns had ever been able to devise a polarized detector screen.
But try as I might, I could only devise something so commonplace that I let the clay spoil.
He was a slow-witted man, and he could devise no ready answer, no such cutting gibe as it would have pleasured him to administer.
Every one from the highest rank downwards had his personal devise or impresa, or more often a series of them.
It was, therefore, most desirable to devise a method of ridding the bed of algal growth without injuring the cress.
During their walk they might devise some means of breaking the news in a gentle way.
A devisor may clearly devise or limit the possession of chattels, making them inalienable by devisees in succession.
Throughout the medival ages, the word devise formed the generic term for every species of emblazonment.
Other men have attempted to redistribute the divisions and devise new modes of collecting the revenue.
The most suitable fete the Germans can devise for him is a celebration of Jena and Auerstadt.
No one could offer a word of comfort, and the pn seller and his wife could devise no means of consolation.
I recalled the final scene of that escapade, which I myself had managed to devise.
Why, I could devise a teleview attachment in two days that would make them visible.
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