How could I devise rules quickly for a situation of which I had no experience?

The recent charter revision left it to the conflicts board to devise tighter rules for part-time members.

In general, Congress has skillfully devised new rules for computing pension obligations.

Devising such rules - and their exceptions - and entering them into a computer can take years.

Furthermore, we would have to devise fairly tight rules.

In June the court had ordered the commission to devise rules for the take-or-pay contracts.

As you will be aware, we have also devised special rules for the Balkan states.

Why are you in such a rush, Commissioner, to devise new rules?

It is imperative that we devise rules that make this possible.

Over the summer, in fact, regulators devised rules governing analyst activities that are intended to make their conflicts more apparent.