Ministers must devise a system that encourages the views of ordinary people without it becoming dominated by the well-meaning but professional busybody.

Yet successive governments have failed to devise a system able to log people in and out when they cross our borders.

We must, instead, devise some system by which we can agree on a series of contingent operating premises (187-8).

Frequent complaints regarding the time and work required to remove the mower deck or snowcaster led engineers to devise a system to streamline the process.

His major interest of the time, besides medicine, was to devise a system of signaling across long distances, using simple codes and lightweight materials.