They have devised ingenious methods to harvest, transport, and store rainwater, spring water, groundwater, and even air moisture.

UNESCO: Natural Sciences

Or were his victories more or less predetermined (as his own officer Cleitus grumbled) by the innovations and training methods devised by his father, Philip?

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Human brains (1.4kg and 100 billion neurons) will come later, when all the wrinkles have been ironed out in rodents, and proper methods devised to analyse the results.

ECONOMIST: Connectomics aims to map the atlas of the brain

There were technical economic methods that could be used to devised the ideal government policies.

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So the rules that will be devised for electronic commerce may affect the choice between physical and digital methods of trade.

ECONOMIST: A survey of world trade