| Later, when he's brought to her attention for poaching game birds on her property, she devises a very unique punishment for the old reprobate. |
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| Visual puns and rebuses had been popular features in the heraldic imprese or devises of France for centuries. |
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| It uses some of the devises of dream, like multiple personality and tiers of meaning, but its procedures are hyperconscious. |
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| When more conventional means to control them fails, he devises an elaborate revenge which culminates in his poisoning the dogs. |
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| There he developed mechanical devises such as the statoscope, cars, motorized invalid chairs, power scooters, and various amusement park rides. |
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| Norden bombsights were replaced by 20 cent improvised models to prevent the secret devises from falling into enemy hands. |
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| With a kind of devilish glee he devises for himself ever more terrible punishments, tortures, eviscerations. |
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| Another system that devises methods to avoid errors is user-centered design. |
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| So, she devises an incredibly complex scheme that requires Phillippe to deflower many virgins. |
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| He devises a game of marbles, and sits with the child and plays. |
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| Jane, the heroine, devises a theory that is marketed to the viewer as revolutionary, when it is quite a stretch to describe it as more than ingratiatingly goofy. |
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| Avoiding set rhyme schemes but staying within more or less uniform stanzas, Roberts devises sonic constellations out of internal rhyme and repetition. |
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| Another dictionary I looked at actually states that an architect is a person who plans, devises, or contrives the achievement of a desired result. |
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| Brody becomes a local builder while Carrie devises elaborate schemata for the school holiday pageant? |
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| Yet many children left to their own devises slip off the grid and slide under the radar. |
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| It has devised a testing system, called Agitator, that examines a program and devises test-scripts automatically. |
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| However, these devises have been shown to be harmful for severely injured patients in randomized clinical trials. |
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| Prospero devises a show of tinsel finery to sidetrack the vulgarians, but he is not present to see Caliban's disillusionment, or his vehement contempt. |
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| He devises a far-fetched plan to poison the monk through the mail, because he realizes that he cannot kill the man face-to-face. |
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| Rather than going about things in a straightforward manner, she devises stratagems, the complexities of which are analogous to the workings of a Rube Goldberg project. |
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| Meanwhile Mr Osborne devises cunning traps for Labour over welfare spending. This is a forensic blinkered pursuit of votes, rather than growth, and it could backfire. |
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| Finca Colibri has been refurnished a few months ago with bamboo furniture and with new electric devises especially in the idea of renting the house. |
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| With the help of her mother, Ali devises two tulip bulbs and a stem to serve as a kind of codpiece, enhancing her already convincing male facade. |
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| Burt Lancaster portrayed a charismatic general who devises a complex plan for a military takeover, and Kirk Douglas played his aide, who sympathizes with him but feels duty bound to prevent the coup d'état. |
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| Prime Minister Naoto Kan has said that his cabinet will consider splitting TEPCO and reviewing Japan's energy monopolies when it devises a new energy policy this year. |
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| If the free market is left to its own devises, weaker players will be weeded out, allowing prices to rise and profits to recover to a level which will ensure proper infrastructure investment. |
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| The minister, with cabinet, and then by going through a regulatory process, devises licensing principles and they are put into effect by licensing officers. |
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| As a reward for their truculence and resistance to the traditional methods taught by the school, they were made to repeat a year before graduating, but the exasperated faculty decided to leave them to their own devises. |
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| A real travel couturier, Bradipo Travel Designer devises and creates a made-to-measure travel offer tailored to the client's specific requirements, making it a unique and unforgettable experience. |
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| Une source responsable au sein de la Banque Centrale a affirme que les reserves monetaires en devises a la BC sont prevues a une hausse de 8 milliards de dollars. |
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| Based on Frederick Knott's play of the same name, the film stars Ray Milland as a cuckolded husband who devises a plan for his wife's murder, which then goes horribly wrong. |
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| The Court thus devises and deploys bright-line rules and rules of thumb, rules that sacrifice something in justice to achieve something in efficiency. |
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| In 1578, the English mathematician William Bourne recorded in his book Inventions or Devises one of the first plans for an underwater navigation vehicle. |
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