inventing

My Aunt Gainor was all her life fond of what she called inventing chances,

Hugh Wynne, Free Quaker 1871

Crucially, he oversaw Big Brother where he was instrumental in inventing a system of recording all the house conversations, with students listening via headphones and writing down quotes.

Will Danny Cohen have youth on his side at BBC1? Maggie Brown 2010

For a man who participated in inventing a false threat, invading a country and not protecting our troops and destroying the lives of many Americans is a mockery of LEADERSHIP!

Cheney's Secret Service protection extended 2009

Peoples without writing, as the anthropologists like to call them, have succeeded in inventing a form of total communication, through song and myth.

Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clézio - Nobel Lecture 2008

That's what inventing is about, my friends, it is about improvement.

Archive 2007-01-01 2007

"It's a compendium of barbarities, both primitive and thoroughly modern, a vision of life reduced to its brutal basics: violence is constant; sex is urgent, sloppy and profoundly unromantic; and the struggle to survive makes men and women appallingly creative in inventing ways to mistreat one another."

GreenCine Daily: Fests and events, 2/26. 2007

And here's a bit of trivia ... thanks to his work in inventing languages and like, Burgess was a consultant (along with Desmond Morris) on "Quest for Fire" in which he helped develope the languages used by the various tribes of the movie.

How to Become a Fanboy 2006

The Fellahs are exceedingly clever in inventing methods of manslaughter.

The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night 2006

I call it inventing evidence where previously none existed, merely to bolster one's own rhetoric.

A Very Odd Statement 2005

He also branched out into science, dabbled in inventing, and founded a museum in Philadelphia (which his descendants eventually sold to none other than P.T. Barnum.)

Medpundit 2003