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Why did they devise censorship? To show a world which doesn’t exist, an ideal world, or what they envisaged as the ideal world. And we wanted to depict the world as it was. – Krzysztof Kieślowski	added by Normando 1 year ago
I had to devise a plan on what to do. And the plan was to evacuate the building, and then rescue those that couldn’t get out, and then I had to give those orders to the fire officers, captains and lieutenants and battalion chiefs that came in, and the firefighters. – Joseph Pfeifer	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
By delegating the crisis response to lower levels, and not being clear in his own messaging, Putin did leave people to devise their own solutions in ways they felt responded to what Russian President Vladimir Putin probably wanted. That kind of experimentation can be good, but is also meant there were a lot of mistakes made, in some areas, there is endemic corruption and dysfunction. You could have known they were going to drop the ball. Investment wasn't going to get where it needed to get. – Sam Greene	Found on CNN 3 years ago
The process of recovery is not a simple one, we can not be satisfied merely with makeshift arrangements which will tide us over the present emergencies. We must devise plans that will not merely alleviate the ills of today, but will prevent, as far as it is humanly possible to do so, their recurrence in the future. – Frances Perkins and her colleagues	Found on CNN 4 years ago
The most important thing a club has to understand in modern times is the kind of work it has to do in order to have sporting and financial success, the secret for Benfica was not to copy anyone and to devise a way to have sporting success regardless of what players we sell for the good of our financial stability. Any young talent that stands out in a club is immediately transferred, because the offers are irrefutable. – Bruno Lage	Found on CNN 4 years ago
Mr. President, if you want to devise a way to lose the 2020 elections, go against your base and support these two gun controls or any others. – Dudley Brown	Found on CNN 4 years ago
The properties of the Cow strain nearly all models we have tried to devise to explain it, whatever it is, it must involve some form of energetic and very fast explosion interacting with an extremely dense shell of material very close to the explosion progenitor. – Daniel Perley	Found on CNN 5 years ago
I'm delighted that together, we will be able to work on a common shared road map for the European Union and the Eurozone, ... I hope very much in the weeks to come, we will be able to devise a common shared road map between France and Germany... We need more trust, much more trust and more specifically, results. – Emmanuel Macron	Found on CNN 6 years ago
... I hope very much in the weeks to come, we will be able to devise a common shared road map between France and Germany... We need more trust, much more trust and more specifically, results. – The German	Found on CNN 6 years ago
It is unbelievable, it is going to be very difficult for us to devise an appropriate entrance exam. – Prabhat Mittal	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
Unlike the alcohol ignition interlocks which require you to blow into a devise and are used for convicted drunk drivers, DADSS is a driver assist system that would be seamless, take less than half a second, and use infrared light to measure a driver’s blood alcohol content in the breath or through the fingertips, which is far more reliable. – Bud Zaouk	Found on Reuters 9 years ago
We first try to identify the source of their stress so we can devise a personalized and targeted plan to help her relax. – Spencer Richlin	Found on FOX News 9 years ago
It is extremely difficult in a single study to account for every variable that impacts performance, the studies here add to a growing body of evidence suggesting that surgeons, particularly experienced surgeons, can devise techniques to compensate for sleep disruption. – Carlos Pellegrini	Found on Reuters 9 years ago
To come and be able to sit here — it's incredible, i'm sitting where Paul Revere used to come with his fellow Patriots to devise their plan of attack. You can't recreate this feeling — it's like grasping at smoke. – Michael Raymond-James	Found on FOX News 9 years ago
Nature has a surer plan than mortals can devise. – Chris Morris	added by anonymous 9 years ago
And be on they guard against the good and the just They would fain curcify those who devise their own virtue -- they hate the lonesome ones. – Friedrich Nietzsche	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Human subtelty will never devise an invention more beautiful, more simple or more direct than does Nature, because in her inventions, nothing is lacking and nothing is superfluous. – Leonardo DaVinci	added by anonymous 14 years ago

Why did they devise censorship? To show a world which doesn’t exist, an ideal world, or what they envisaged as the ideal world. And we wanted to depict the world as it was.

– Krzysztof Kieślowski

added by Normando
1 year ago

I had to devise a plan on what to do. And the plan was to evacuate the building, and then rescue those that couldn’t get out, and then I had to give those orders to the fire officers, captains and lieutenants and battalion chiefs that came in, and the firefighters.

– Joseph Pfeifer

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

By delegating the crisis response to lower levels, and not being clear in his own messaging, Putin did leave people to devise their own solutions in ways they felt responded to what Russian President Vladimir Putin probably wanted. That kind of experimentation can be good, but is also meant there were a lot of mistakes made, in some areas, there is endemic corruption and dysfunction. You could have known they were going to drop the ball. Investment wasn't going to get where it needed to get.

– Sam Greene

Found on CNN
3 years ago

The process of recovery is not a simple one, we can not be satisfied merely with makeshift arrangements which will tide us over the present emergencies. We must devise plans that will not merely alleviate the ills of today, but will prevent, as far as it is humanly possible to do so, their recurrence in the future.

– Frances Perkins and her colleagues

Found on CNN
4 years ago

The most important thing a club has to understand in modern times is the kind of work it has to do in order to have sporting and financial success, the secret for Benfica was not to copy anyone and to devise a way to have sporting success regardless of what players we sell for the good of our financial stability. Any young talent that stands out in a club is immediately transferred, because the offers are irrefutable.

– Bruno Lage

Found on CNN
4 years ago

Mr. President, if you want to devise a way to lose the 2020 elections, go against your base and support these two gun controls or any others.

– Dudley Brown

Found on CNN
4 years ago

The properties of the Cow strain nearly all models we have tried to devise to explain it, whatever it is, it must involve some form of energetic and very fast explosion interacting with an extremely dense shell of material very close to the explosion progenitor.

– Daniel Perley

Found on CNN
5 years ago

I'm delighted that together, we will be able to work on a common shared road map for the European Union and the Eurozone, ... I hope very much in the weeks to come, we will be able to devise a common shared road map between France and Germany... We need more trust, much more trust and more specifically, results.

– Emmanuel Macron

Found on CNN
6 years ago

... I hope very much in the weeks to come, we will be able to devise a common shared road map between France and Germany... We need more trust, much more trust and more specifically, results.

– The German

Found on CNN
6 years ago

It is unbelievable, it is going to be very difficult for us to devise an appropriate entrance exam.

– Prabhat Mittal

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

Unlike the alcohol ignition interlocks which require you to blow into a devise and are used for convicted drunk drivers, DADSS is a driver assist system that would be seamless, take less than half a second, and use infrared light to measure a driver’s blood alcohol content in the breath or through the fingertips, which is far more reliable.

– Bud Zaouk

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

We first try to identify the source of their stress so we can devise a personalized and targeted plan to help her relax.

– Spencer Richlin

Found on FOX News
9 years ago

It is extremely difficult in a single study to account for every variable that impacts performance, the studies here add to a growing body of evidence suggesting that surgeons, particularly experienced surgeons, can devise techniques to compensate for sleep disruption.

– Carlos Pellegrini

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

To come and be able to sit here — it's incredible, i'm sitting where Paul Revere used to come with his fellow Patriots to devise their plan of attack. You can't recreate this feeling — it's like grasping at smoke.

– Michael Raymond-James

Found on FOX News
9 years ago

Nature has a surer plan than mortals can devise.

– Chris Morris

added by anonymous
9 years ago

And be on they guard against the good and the just They would fain curcify those who devise their own virtue -- they hate the lonesome ones.

– Friedrich Nietzsche

added by anonymous
14 years ago

Human subtelty will never devise an invention more beautiful, more simple or more direct than does Nature, because in her inventions, nothing is lacking and nothing is superfluous.

– Leonardo DaVinci

added by anonymous
14 years ago

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