The karate kata is a carefully devised procedure for teaching a beginner how to flow from one technique into another without a break.

He performs his job capably with a carefully devised system of simple drawings.

But New York officials have carefully devised a program to lure mothers off welfare with sensible inducements.

The artificial lighting system has been carefully devised to provide zero obstruction to the entry of daylight.

The deaths are causing havoc in a carefully devised disinformation operation.

He said, "There will be a meeting, at some carefully devised neutral point.

An outsider had breached their carefully devised cover operations.

A carefully devised syllabus laid stress on womanly virtues and accomplishments.

A mixture of carefully devised forces was now driving him to talk.

Then, following a carefully devised protocol, which she had to follow to the letter, she would sanction the patient.