Xavier Becerra

I hate to say it but I think it has become very obvious that our system for devising trade agreements, so very important to this country's functioning around the world, has not only broken, but it has broken completely.

American Politician

Terry Pratchett

I think perhaps the most important problem is that we are trying to understand the fundamental workings of the universe via a language devised for telling one another when the best fruit is.

English Author

Walt Disney

Animation can explain whatever the mind of man can conceive. This facility makes it the most versatile and explicit means of communication yet devised for quick mass appreciation.

American Businessman

Rick Perlstein

Sometimes I like to think that the responsibility of every new generation of Democrats is to devise a program that mints new Democrats for another seventy-five years or so.

American Historian

Mahatma Gandhi

A principle is the expression of perfection, and as imperfect beings like us cannot practise perfection, we devise every moment limits of its compromise in practice.

Indian Leader

George C. Williams

The only realistic view is that a human life arises gradually, which is not much help in making personal decisions or devising public policy.

American Scientist

Barbara Kingsolver

Terms like that, 'Humane Society,' are devised with people like me in mind, who don't care to dwell on what happens to the innocent.

American Novelist

John Henrik Clarke

Nothing the European mind ever devised was meant to do anything but to facilitate the European's control over the world.

American Author

Ronald Reagan

Democracy is worth dying for, because it's the most deeply honorable form of government ever devised by man.

American President

Jacob Weisberg

Conservative journalists don't just have the inside track on Republican strategy - they help devise it.

American Journalist

Use 'devise' when you're specifically describing a clever or inventive solution.

Problem Solving

'Devise' implies innovation and the creation of something new that did not exist before.

Creative Thinking

'Devise' usually indicates a process that requires careful thought or planning beforehand.

Pre-Planning

In legal terms, 'devise' is used when talking about leaving property to someone in a will.

Legal Context

'Devise' legally refers to the transfer of real estate, not personal items or money.

Real Estate

Using 'devise' in a will gives a formal tone and is typical in legal documents.

Formal Language

 the string theory often answer not yet but we believe the answer for why those numbers have devised they do may rely on the form of the extra dimensions and the wonderful thing is if those numbers had any other values than the known ones the universe as we know it wouldn't exist

String theory - Brian...

 didn't support us because they felt the winner getting enough reward and we had to figure out a business model we have to figure out the most efficient way to transport waste we have to devise a system for teaching people how to recycle on a large scale and we have to

Making change with...

 and puzzled over it. You've seen people take beneficial technological advances, such as the Internet we've heard about tonight, and twist them into something corrupting. You've seen brilliant people devise computer viruses that bring down whole systems.

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 we've devised ways to banish it underground. We can do this by injecting it deep into the Earth, or by placing it deep under the ocean's surface. Stripping away coal's negative elements can happen in three ways. First, and most commonly, as coal burns,

How to create cleaner...

 by devising a complex riddle involving this list of clues. Can you resist tackling a brain teaser written by one of the smartest people in history? Let's give it a shot. The world's rarest fish has been stolen from the city aquarium.

Can you solve...

 important the work of the center really he is so clever that he can communicate with rob using a new language system devised specially for orangutans let's start with an example from the vocabulary

Incredible Orangutan...

 was fed up with glasses. He wanted a solution for blurry vision that fixed the eye itself, without relying on external aids. But the surgery he eventually devised was not for the faint of heart.

How does laser eye...

 would illusions serve the same purpose? To create the robotic illusion, we've devised a set of ethical rules, a code that all robots would live by. A robot may not harm humanity,

Maybe the best robot...

 and his colleagues devised a groundbreaking study of canine intelligence the toys all have names that chaser has learned throughout her life and John picks eight at random

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 Roche was able to devise an equation that applies to all worlds. It tells you how closely a body can come to a planet before it's pulled apart by the planet's