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'Referring the matter to a committee' can be a device for diluting authority, diffusing responsibility and delaying decisions.
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Today's greatest labor-saving device is tomorrow.
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A newspaper is a device for making the ignorant more ignorant and the crazy crazier.
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A weapon is a device for making your enemy change his mind.
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All for one, one for all, that is our device.
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Aristotle could have avoided the mistake of thinking that women have fewer teeth than men, by the simple device of asking Mrs. Aristotle to keep her mouth open while he counted.
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Building a mechanical device for its appearance is like putting lace on a bowling ball.
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Democracy is a device that insures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.
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For commercial customers, we have invested in specialist mobile-first sales capabilities, and we are building out our device-selling channel.
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I find it extraordinary that a straightforward if inelegant device for ensuring the survival of the species should involve human beings in such emotional turmoil. Does sex have to be taken so seriously?
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It may interest you to know that my breakup with Terry and this mystery did not happen concurrently in real life. That is a writer's device, which places Gabriel under even greater pressure when the mystery begins to reveal itself.
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Letter writing is the only device for combining solitude with good company.
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Newspaper: A device unable to distinguish between a bicycle accident and the collapse of civilisation.
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People who work on the user interface side need to have empathy as a key characteristic. But if you are writing device drivers you don't really need to understand humans so well.
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Perhaps violence, like pornography, is some kind of an evolutionary standby system, a last-resort device for throwing a wild joker into the game?
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Phones remain a critical component of the Microsoft device portfolio and an important piece of our mobility strategy, but a restructuring is in order.
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Reading is sometimes an ingenious device for avoiding thought.
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The average American returning from a trip abroad likely - and understandably - assumes the contents of his or her electronic device does not come close to meeting the threshold of 'criminal' activity, such as would give a government agent the right to seize and peruse their iPad just because they are returning from a vacation.
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The cocktail party... is a device either for getting rid of social obligations hurriedly en masse or for making overtures toward more serious social relationships, as in the etiquette of whoring.
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The essay is a literary device for saying almost everything about almost anything.
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