8 sentences with 'devised'
Example sentences and phrases with the word devised and other words derived from it.
• « For the engine, Ford had already devised a sequential production flow. In this case, he placed the engines on a conveyor belt. »
• « Analyzed from the point of view of today's 1980s, it would be difficult not to compare these inspections with those devised by George Orwell in his novel 1984; however, the concern of the Orwellian Big Brother had application in 1914 to the ordinary Detroit worker, for he was generally an immigrant who could barely speak a smattering of English. »
• « It was the Greeks who devised history in the same sense in which the term is used today, i.e. a story (a narrative) based on historical facts that tries to explain what happened and why it happened the way it did. »
• « Greek sailors already knew that the world was round and had devised a system for determining latitude that was surprisingly accurate; Pytheas' own calculation of the latitude of Massalia was only eight miles wrong. »
• « German tactics centred on the "Schlieffen Plan", named after its author, Field Marshal Alfred von Schlieffen, who had devised it in the early years of the 20th century. »
• « In 1944, a team of politicians and economists from several Allied nations met in New Hampshire and devised the basis for the post-war economic order, the Bretton Woods Agreement. This agreement fixed the dollar as the monetary reserve of the Western world, created the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank to stabilise the international economy, and fixed currency exchange rates. »
• « Around 1880, the Belgian photographer Désiré van Monckhoven devised a new development method, the dry plate, which eliminated the need to coat the plates with wet collodion before use. As dry plates were very expensive, Lumiére set out to make a similar product at home. »