Use "devising" in a sentence

1. But there is one hidden danger of inflation, which many of us forget or ignore while devising the financial strategy for retirement

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2. however, as they all concentrated on devising a plan for

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3. They took as their doctrine a strict set of rules and guidelines know as the Temporal Directive, devising rules for minimal intervention and interference, which then had to be adapted for each assignment

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4. The salesmen used high-power techniques, mostly of Bernie’s devising, to sell

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5. Fiendish tortures were also often resorted to, especially with prisoners of war, when the executioners vied with each other in devising fearful methods of torture, such as flaying alive, plucking out eyes, and even more original devices

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6. Once Colling knew where Tomasz’ wife and daughters were, he gave his attention to devising a scheme to bring them to the von Brechstler estate

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7. In fact, as I mentioned yesterday, the lack of evidence, either way, was what led to me being an agnostic for several years before devising my test

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8. It seems to have only been when an appeal was made to the Presence that has always seemed to lurk just beyond the natural senses of mankind for the guidance that was beyond Man’s ability to give himself, that he has been successful in devising and maintaining this “Book of Wisdom

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9. 12 For the devising of idols was the beginning of spiritual fornication and the invention of them the corruption of life

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10. those things which the king of Assyria was devising, that is to come and seize him and destroy his people, the two and a half tribes

11. “Astronomers have watched the sky with spells that magnify their vision for millennia, always devising better spells for it, and they have seen stars explode, and seen worlds destroyed by collisions with other worlds, or enveloped in clouds of dust so dense that the light from their stars was blocked, and they froze solid

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12. Devising such spells is fiendishly complex and requires the cumulative effort of thousands of researchers

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13. 3 When moreover Hezekiah the king heard those things which the king of Assyria was devising that is to come and seize him and destroy his people the two and a half tribes which remained; no more he wished to overthrow Zion also; then Hezekiah trusted in his works and had hope in his righteousness and spoke with the Mighty One and said: 4 "Look because note! Sennacherib is prepared to destroy us and he will be boastful and exalted when he has destroyed Zion

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14. 23 For when he heard the cry and saw them all on the verge of destruction with tears he angrily threatened his friends saying 24 you have governed badly; and have exceeded tyrants in cruelty; and me your benefactor you have laboured to deprive at once of my dominion and my life by secretly devising measures injurious to the kingdom

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15. I spent my days devising new strategies for capture-the-flag and making alliances with the other cabins to keep the banner out of Ares’s hands

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16. Scientific Method - a rational method for forming a hypothesis and devising tests to disprove the hypothesis

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17. Secretly, she was devising a plan that would make him hers

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18. Skinny was devising a plan in her head

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19. A rich man ended up getting richer, and spent his days and nights devising ways to protect his new wealth

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20. Worse, Ghormley had proven to be a defeatist, lacking aggressiveness and constantly worrying about the enemy’s moves instead of devising strategies to take the initiative

21. for devising the plan for Operation Counterpunch, while I won the V

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22. Good analytics can also help in devising early checks in the implementation process

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23. She also proved to be a tactical and strategic genius of the first order as she went up quickly in rank, devising and executing numerous air and joint operations in the Pacific, such as the taking by helicopter air assault of Lae and many other important Japanese airfields in Papua New Guinea and the sinking of the battleships YAMATO and MUSASHI in Rabaul Harbor

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24. I would like you two to start devising a plan to quickly break Laplante out of prison in Quetta if that becomes necessary

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25. And, he was confident that the plan he was devising to escape would work

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26. I realize she must have stashed of them, and she’s leading everyone into traps of her own devising

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27. From the sound of the whispering and giggling, they seemed to be hard at work devising something

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28. “There are counter-measures, of course,” said Stevens, “and we are constantly devising new methods of encryption and layered defences to combat increasingly sophisticated threats

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29. In devising a way to steal the soul the djain conspired with a human woman

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30. Leeds on a poxy course in Birmingham? How could he cheat on me while I was devising a scenario on

31. For the devising of idols was the beginning of spiritual fornication [ i

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32. I, too, think that the devising of idols was–and still is--the major human error

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33. Button had such a man as Sebastian in mind for what she had been devising to do

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34. Everyone who had ever known him recognised his great power of thought unmatched by any other man in that era, and his ingenuity in devising a plan in order to achieve success and for the greater good

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35. What is the most pragmatic way of devising a unique

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36. “Hoenir gave it to me; Mimir said he’s been devising it since the last time you were here

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37. If they’re not hassling about the press being gagged and political films being censored, they’re devising their own plots to undermine us

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38. measuring the amount of CO in the air including devising

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39. He could not look at her but his mind was already analysing the situation and devising his next move

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40. practical and helpful process, which focuses on problems at hand that need to be dealt with, by devising a

41. He vowed to escape from Illium and set about devising a plan

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42. Salman is famed for devising the

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43. Unhappy, shortsighted Anselmo, what art thou doing, what art thou plotting, what art thou devising? Bethink thee thou art working against thyself, plotting thine own dishonour, devising thine own ruin

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44. She replied that it was a beneficiary of the town who had a nice taste in devising things of the sort

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45. Don Quixote's host was one Don Antonio Moreno by name, a gentleman of wealth and intelligence, and very fond of diverting himself in any fair and good-natured way; and having Don Quixote in his house he set about devising modes of making him exhibit his mad points in some harmless fashion; for jests that give pain are no jests, and no sport is worth anything if it hurts another

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46. What would you say again to the tale of Zeus, who, while other gods and men were asleep and he the only person awake, lay devising plans, but forgot them all in a moment through his lust, and was so completely overcome at the sight of Here that he would not even go into the hut, but wanted to lie with her on the ground, declaring that he had never been in such a state of rapture before, even when they first met one another

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47. I conceive, I said, that the true legislator will not trouble himself with this class of enactments whether concerning laws or the constitution either in an ill-ordered or in a well-ordered State; for in the former they are quite useless, and in the latter there will be no difficulty in devising them; and many of them will naturally flow out of our previous regulations

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48. In his return to the camp, his acute and practised intellects were intently engaged in devising means to counteract a watchfulness and suspicion on the part of his enemies, that he knew were, in no degree, inferior to his own

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49. During the six years which had passed since Noirtier first fell into this sad state, Valentine's powers of invention had been too often put to the test not to render her expert in devising expedients for gaining a knowledge of his wishes, and the constant practice had so perfected her in the art that she guessed the old man's meaning as quickly as if he himself had been able to seek for what he wanted

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50. She inherited her mother's gift for devising drapery and costume

51. But by then they were heavily invested in a plan of their own devising, in a course of action, in a procedure, in the promise of extreme future physical pleasure, and the two major components of that coming nirvana were knotted tight in the swaying crowd, collateral damage just waiting to happen, and they didn’t want them damaged

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52. I ran to the house in Soho, and (to make assurance doubly sure) destroyed my papers; thence I set out through the lamplit streets, in the same divided ecstasy of mind, gloating on my crime, light-headedly devising others in the future, and yet still hastening and still hearkening in my wake for the steps of the avenger

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53. Sometimes, too, he had experienced the opposite, expressing at last what he liked himself, which he was devising arguments to defend, and, chancing to express it well and genuinely, he had found his opponent at once agreeing and ceasing to dispute his position

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54. But, you will ask, why these experiences and why this delay, when you and your comrades should have been occupied day and night in the devising of some means by which you could return to the outer world? My answer is, that there was not one of us who was not working for this end, but that our work had been in vain

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55. Hadn’t keeping her away from all this been his reason for getting her on the private-school track in the first place? But Dad, egged on by Richard Groskoph with his paper and pen, increasingly existed in a world of his own devising, where his own father and brothers were still alive, and fireworks in New York still synonymous with the Cicciaro name

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56. She was not in the habit of devising falsehoods, and if her statements were no direct clew to fact, why, they were not intended in that light—they were among her elegant accomplishments, intended to please

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57. Actual responsibility for devising a reorganization plan devolves on three disinterested agencies: (1) the trustee, who must present the plan in the first instance; (2) the S

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58. In our opinion, however, this was due not so much to weaknesses remaining in the statute as it was to the extraordinary problem of devising fair plans for extremely complicated corporate structures when the question of future earning power was both highly controversial and of critical importance

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59. Add individual tortures to national degradations, and, whoever you may be, you will shudder before the frock and the veil,—those two winding-sheets of human devising

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60. He’d spent years devising a plan that had a very real chance of dismantling America’s intelligence apparatus

61. Once you know why you want that position—and that includes why you expect it to be profitable—the next step is devising a plan to capture the profits

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62. So much so, he said, that they were already devising a system for installing it on boats

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63. They are superior to other large-cap indexes like the Russell 1000 and S&P 500 and offer a lesson to the creators of index funds, demonstrating that they may wish to bring a more objective, quantitative screening process to bear when devising new indexes

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64. "On Tuesday afternoon a meeting of the uninjured survivors was called in the main saloon for the purpose of devising means of assisting the more unfortunate, many of whom had lost relatives and all their personal belongings, and thanking Divine Providence for their deliverance

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65. Never since the devising of gunpowder was the beginning of a battle so still

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66. He was devising an excuse to get out and run away when Beletski announced that Ustenka, whose saint's day it was, must offer chikhir to everybody with a kiss

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67. But once he has learned all this, the composer may unceasingly produce one work after another; whether programme-music, opera, or song (devising sounds more or less corresponding to the words), or chamber music, i

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68. It is like not helping a man out of confinement into the fresh air, but devising means, instead, to pump into him the necessary quantity of oxygen and arranging so that he may live in a stifling cellar instead of living at home

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69. And other people who are in the same position as he believe him, commend him, and solemnly discuss with him measures for ameliorating the condition of the working-class, on whose exploitation their whole life rests, devising all kinds of possible methods for this, except the one without which all improvement of their condition is impossible, i

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70. Jackson perhaps was not apprised at the time he was employed in devising the gross insinuation

71. Canning in devising an ingenious mental retort, for converting the bad faith of his own Government, in the disavowal of the arrangement, into a reproach upon ours, for the circumstances under which that arrangement was pretended to have been made

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72. For, sir, men of minds of that description are too much employed in the pleasing amusement of looking out for coruscations of wit and sentiment, to have any leisure for the more dull and unpleasurable business of observing and marking the great occurrences in human affairs, and of devising means of giving them a direction favorable to their own views, or to their country's interests

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73. The same just and benevolent motives which produced the interdiction in force against this criminal conduct, will doubtless be felt by Congress in devising further means of suppressing the evil

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74. And yet, what is our situation in relation to that destroyer of mankind—him who, devising death to all that live, sits like a cormorant on the tree of life; who cannot be glutted, nor tired, with human carnage; the impersonation of death; himself an incarnate death?

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