They might devise schemes to promote infighting and misdirection among political opponents.

While we devise schemes of more scientific amelioration, hundreds die of sharp starvation or misery long drawn out.

I cannot devise schemes, but I know something, and if it succeeds he need not go to the gold-mines.

He had to devise schemes to find what they were thinking about, and induce them to risk criticism from their fellows.

It should not be beyond the capabilities of the computer industry to devise schemes to prevent software copying without restricting consumer rights.

Financiers must devise schemes of taxation, to be submitted to the sovereign; collectors of various kinds must levy the taxes on the people.

Silent, with the Indian silent following in his footsteps, he returned to his lodgings to brood over his prospects and to devise schemes.

He used to devise schemes of money-getting so fraudulent and high-financial that they wouldn't have been allowed in the bylaws of a railroad rebate system.

These and many other well- devised schemes are available, all connected with fraud.

I employed great part of the time in devising schemes for relieving Manon.

And straightway she falls to devising schemes for amusing the boys.

On the contrary, there were various elements that devised schemes for exterminating the institution.

Local and regional governments are also devising schemes to eliminate the pests, but nothing seems effective in stopping the toad.

This made his jealousy more intolerable, and humiliated his pride, and set him to work devising schemes for punishing Robert's presumption.

The Hindoo (Brahmin) ascetic, or naked philosopher, as the Greeks called him, exhausted his imagination in devising schemes of self-torture.

It is no use proposing finely devised schemes, or going through general pious exercises in the hope that somehow Rest will come.