Shinto, which has a background of polytheism, by means of exclusivist religious teaching, became a “socio-political religion”. |
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Politicians proposed popular sovereignty as a means of entrusting the issue to citizens of new territories. |
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When cuneiform writing was first invented in ancient Sumer, the scribes scratched signs on the moist clay by means of a pointed instrument. |
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We must discover a means of subsidy by which music and parallel arts may thrive unapologetically. |
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There is a sense of grandeur in the idea that paying heavily is a means of advancing knowledge. |
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It is a great means of profiting yourself, to copy diligently excellent pieces and beautiful designs. |
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Other tools and means of navigation were the detailed charts and sailing directions, the stars, and the pilot's marks on the familiar shores. |
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Birds initially developed wings and feathers as a means of heat regulation. The use of wings for flight is an example of exaptation. |
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In other words, language no longer becomes a means of differentiation between two speech communities as a result of language mixing. |
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This could be achieved by means of an authoritative dictionary of the English language. |
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Another aspect of his resources is that he must have the means of support for his tools, the three classes of men. |
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All major parties have practised vote rigging and other means of coercion to remain competitive. |
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It has all the potential qualities of becoming the international means of communication. |
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The segmental function was once a common means of indicating an unmarked quotation on the same line. |
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Most if not all languages have some means of forming the comparative, although these means can vary significantly from one language to the next. |
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The fact that dogs have a well developed sense of smell suggests that they might be able to use the odour of faeces as a means of communicating. |
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Dr. Bhatia pointed out that famine had occurred in all ages and in all societies where means of communication and transport were not developed. |
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Money is a means of final payment for goods in most price system economies and the unit of account in which prices are typically stated. |
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He travelled more than any other pope, visiting 129 countries, and used television and radio as means of spreading the Church's teachings. |
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The hymn functioned both as a liturgical setting of the Lord's Prayer and as a means of examining candidates on specific catechism questions. |
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The Burgrecht cities considered different means of applying pressure to the Five States. |
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The Church does not approve of the use of abortion as a means of birth control or family planning, but recognizes a woman's right to receive one. |
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Such laws have varying degrees and means of enforcement, variability, and jurisdiction. |
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The burying of wood in water, which dissolves out or alters its putrescible constituents, has long been practised as a means of seasoning. |
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Yet another means of looking at character, according to Tycho von Wilamowitz and Howald, is the idea that characterisation is not important. |
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He explains that action normally determines the major means of characterisation. |
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Salvation is granted to individuals by means of the word of God and the Holy Spirit, who persuades them to believe and obey. |
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If this is not possible, any respectful means of disposing the body may be employed. |
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Birth control is also being considered as an alternative to hunting as a means of controlling overpopulation in wild animals. |
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Also, modern military organisations employed capital punishment as a means of maintaining military discipline. |
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Thomas Aquinas, a Doctor of the Church, accepted the death penalty as a deterrent and prevention method but not as a means of vengeance. |
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Abolished era names may be reused, for example as a means of claiming or denying political legitimacy. |
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Thus, Pulteney Bridge became not just a means of crossing the river, but also a shopping arcade. |
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This means that the protection of freedom of speech as a right includes not only the content, but also the means of expression. |
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From the middle of the 18th century, some discussed ice as a means of transport. |
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False imprisonment is the intent to confine or bound someone without a means of egress. |
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After the Norman Conquest, some parts of the country preserved juries as the means of investigating crimes. |
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Prior to the Act, the main means of ensuring impartiality was by allowing legal challenges to the sheriff's choices. |
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Prior to the advent of paper currency, bills of exchange were a common means of exchange. |
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Legislation was introduced, amended, or repealed by means of Order in Council. |
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As a result I find the mana weave to be a fair means of randomizing a deck provided it is done face down, and followed by 1 or 2 riffle shuffles. |
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Records of the variations in level of the ocean and the great lakes are kept by means of tidal registers, or marographs. |
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Deaf people may be able to read people's lips, but it's not a foolproof means of communication. |
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He was the first Roman statesman to put his political speeches in writing as a means of influencing public opinion. |
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Iron uptake is tightly regulated by the human body, which has no regulated physiological means of excreting iron. |
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Reversible wheels were used in the mining industry in order to power various means of ore conveyance. |
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The wheels could be either turned by the flow of water, men treading on its outside or by animals by means of a sakia gear. |
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All machine tools have some means of constraining the workpiece and provide a guided movement of the parts of the machine. |
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He focused on monetary expansion as a means of helping to create full employment. |
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Capitalism is an economic system and an ideology based on private ownership of the means of production and their operation for profit. |
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In Marxist economics these owners of the means of production and suppliers of capital are generally called capitalists. |
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The term is not used by Austrian school economists to describe state ownership of the means of production. |
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Engines were run at higher pressures and from 1875, powered horizontal shafts on each floor by means of ropes. |
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The utilitarian loses that distinction, turning us into empty vessels by means of which consequences occur. |
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Delineation of jobs was rigid and communication would be through the means of coloured slips of paper written on in indelible pencil. |
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At the top of the stroke the steam valve was closed, and cold water was briefly injected into the cylinder as a means of cooling the steam. |
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Biological energy is frequently stored and released by means of redox reactions. |
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A flux was added, and they were covered and heated by means of coke for about three hours. |
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This produced the first steel of modern quality, providing a means of efficiently changing excess wrought iron into useful steel. |
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These means of production are called capital goods, because a certain amount of capital is invested. |
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Chemical substances may be combined or converted to others by means of chemical reactions. |
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However, by the 13th century, deforestation had rendered this means of production uneconomical, and alkali had to be imported. |
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The most usual means of claiming the unofficial title was by popular or press acclaim. |
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However, lighting with means of gas would be short lived because the invention of the electric light bulb would be soon to follow. |
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The incompletely threshed grain is returned to the cylinder by means of a system of conveyors, where the process repeats. |
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The national government encouraged the mine safety movement as a means of limiting strife in the sometimes turbulent coal fields. |
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Horizontal travel by means of narrow gauge tramway or cable car is also much safer and can move more people and ore than vertical elevators. |
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In 1762 he obtained parliamentary powers to provide an improved waterway between Liverpool and Manchester by means of a canal. |
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Rent therefore represented a kind of negative money that landlords could pull out of the production of the land, by means of its scarcity. |
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In the second and subsequent editions Malthus put more emphasis on moral restraint as the best means of easing the poverty of the lower classes. |
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We will suppose the means of subsistence in any country just equal to the easy support of its inhabitants. |
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It also established the Nansen passport as a means of identification for stateless people. |
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The 6th Airborne Division was called in to provide security as a means of ending the strike. |
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Bad men as frequently prosper and flourish, and that by the means of their wickedness. |
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It may also include other branches of the military such as the air force via means of aviation corps. |
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However, it was not used to any great extent until a practical means of generating electricity was developed. |
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It was for this reason that the generation was close to or on the consumer's premises as Edison had no means of voltage conversion. |
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For it means that there is a functioning market in the exchange of private titles to the means of production. |
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In earlier texts, Maximiliano Korstanje explores the American exceptionalism and its effects on the current means of productions. |
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Strategy and statecraft become means of 'combative coexistence' with opponents. |
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Much legislation, in practice, is effected by means of secondary legislation under the authority of prior laws or Orders in Council. |
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Transfer of oxygen from the lungs to the brain in the human body occurs by means of forced convection. |
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At one time, cable ferries were a primary means of automobile transportation in New South Wales in Australia. |
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This is a means of asexual reproduction, and the genetically identical units can lead to the formation of clonal populations. |
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Transfer of heat from the engine to the automobile radiator occurs by means of forced convection. |
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The technique may find modern application, both to improve soils and as a means of carbon sequestration. |
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Terracing is an extremely effective means of erosion control, which has been practiced for thousands of years by people all over the world. |
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Martineau relied on Malthus to form her view of the tendency of human population to exceed its means of subsistence. |
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Only by means of direct observation can an artist, through form and colour, represent nature in art. |
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I have business on earth now, and must look about me for the means of doing it. |
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By means of the rheotome, the primary current is broken and closed rapidly, so that the induced current seems almost like a continuous one. |
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Epistaxis has also been arrested by tamponing the nasal cavity by means of an India-rubber tube, the so-called rhineurynter. |
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The railway passed to the west of his Hulton estate and gave his pits at Chequerbent access to the new means of transport. |
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This, and the difficulty of overland travel, meant that travel by sea was the easiest means of moving any distance. |
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Great shoals of people, which go on to populate, without foreseeing means of life. |
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Wires were suspended down each shaft from which the centre line was determined by means of a theodolite. |
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We study helicopter risk by means of the risk influencing model, so the effect of changes is related directly to the RIFs in the model. |
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They are covered by the Arena which was joined to the station by means of a raft above them. |
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The ruffler in leather, who lately went fighting through the door, has returned, presumably by means of another entrance. |
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Amongst these are iron forges, in which irregularly shaped semimalleable lumps of iron are formed into bars by means of hammers driven by water. |
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She was, in appearance, a fine woman, with the rosy, Septemberly beauty which is now generally described by means of three adjectives. |
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The trains run on two addtional rails and pick up current by means of shoegear making sliding contact with the conductor rails. |
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The trick was to find means of positioning a male consumer which did not feminize, emasculate or sissify him. |
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Among themselves they communicate by means of what Perry says must be a sixth sense which is cognizant of a fourth dimension. |
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If the cable is served it should be stripped back to the snugger wire by means of a blow-lamp to assist removal. |
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Important treaties have been incorporated into domestic law by means of Acts of Parliament. |
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Stapleless staplers, invented in 1910, are a means of stapling that punches out a small flap of paper and weaves it through a notch. |
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A strip of muslin swaddles his privates, fixed by means of pine stickum to his belly and buttocks. |
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Because we feel that a stretcher should be more than a means of patient transport, we don't offer a standard Stryker stretcher. |
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Some medical techniques monitor the inside of the body by means of a swallowable miniature camera. |
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Tasseography can be a very accurate means of seeing the patterns and choices playing out in your life. |
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A letter begun to a Gentlewoman of some account, which was left of by means of the aduise of a friend of his, who said she was foresped. |
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Tranched funding can be an effective means of enforcing performance targets. |
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A wide variety of variable transformations can be accomplished in SPSS by means of simplified Fortranlike statements constructed by the user. |
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We thought they were acidotic due to renal impairment, but had no means of verifying this. |
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The bombardment, which had been carefully targeted by means of aerial photography, began on 22 September. |
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The transfer of heat from a hot object by means of upward hot air currents from the object, is due to free convection. |
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Many ammosexuals practice the religion of gundamentalism or demand the invasion of weaker countries as a means of reaching wargasm. |
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Transport in Poland is provided by means of rail, road, marine shipping and air travel. |
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So the only thing left would be using fremium as a means of gaining trial, with the potential to up-sell to a paid subscription. |
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Both the threat and the fact of zombification confer on the bokor a potent means of social control, if he chooses to use it. |
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The only means of discovering alogisms in thought is concrete dialectical analysis of reality reflected in the utterance. |
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In 1946, the government set up a National Institute of Houseworkers as a means of providing a socially democratic variety of domestic service. |
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The British honours system is a means of rewarding individuals' personal bravery, achievement, or service to the United Kingdom. |
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Since the end of World War II, West Germany had been occupied by Allied forces and lacked its own means of defense. |
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Thus all readings, like all autographings, should be gladly accepted as a means of spreading your name around. |
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I could see the headmaster bearing down on me, and looked hopelessly round for a means of escape. |
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The Convention's provisions affecting institutional and procedural matters have been altered several times by means of protocols. |
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Loeb and Angelo Mozilo as a means of collateralizing Countrywide Financial loans too big to be sold to Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae. |
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Roaming tribes of Germanic people then began staking out permanent homes as a means of protection. |
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At both state and federal realms in Australia, assent is used as the means of enforcing a referendum that is required. |
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Each elects six MLAs to the 108 member NI Assembly by means of the single transferable vote system. |
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Tropical curve counting is related to an algebra of operators on the Fock space by means of bosonification. |
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The British undertook a series of military operations as a means of recapturing the Falklands from Argentine occupation. |
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Market economies do not logically presuppose the existence of private ownership of the means of production. |
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The puddling furnace was initially a means of producing wrought iron, but was later applied to steel production. |
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Although greatly improved and with many variations, the Fourdriner machine is the predominant means of paper production today. |
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By means of belts and rollers an operator can maneuver the ULD from the dolly cart, up to the aircraft baggage hold door, and into the aircraft. |
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In other cases, if the geology was favourable, the coal was mined by means of an adit or drift mine driven into the side of a hill. |
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Wage ratio legislation has also been proposed as a means of reducing income inequality. |
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Heavy goods transport on these roads was by means of slow, broad wheeled, carts hauled by teams of horses. |
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His father was a man of comfortable means of the Clerk family of Penicuik, holders of the baronetcy of Clerk of Penicuik. |
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Through this practice he discovered photoelasticity, which is a means of determining the stress distribution within physical structures. |
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The quantum state of spacetime is described in the theory by means of a mathematical structure called spin networks. |
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Later medieval castles at Helmsley, Middleham and Scarborough were built as a means of defence against the invading Scots. |
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They are maintained operational as a means of preserving railway heritage and as a tourist attraction. |
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Swan then turned his attention to producing a better carbon filament and the means of attaching its ends. |
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During his Volta Laboratory period, Bell and his associates considered impressing a magnetic field on a record as a means of reproducing sound. |
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The integrity of the right optic radiation was analysed by means of a hodologic probabilistic approach. |
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Before the first railroads appeared in the 1840s, river transport constituted the main means of communication and trade. |
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Specifically Methodist means, such as the class meetings, provided his chief examples for these prudential means of grace. |
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It is rational and reasoned, but is not arrived at only by means of deductive reasoning. |
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In Hooker's model, Scripture is the primary means of arriving at doctrine, and things stated plainly in Scripture are accepted as true. |
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The muller provides, in addition, a useful means of comparing the important property of the rate of strength development of pigments. |
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Drinking the water as a means of survival would actually hydrate the body instead of dehydrating, as is the case with ocean water. |
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At such times when the cafard of the city seized her, I was at my wits' end to devise a means of rousing her. |
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As each finds his own means of getting around their father's admonition, they struggle with each other for power and dominance. |
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Some flowers have evolved remarkable means of insect pollination. |
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It is also associated with the artists' use of mechanical means of reproduction or rendering techniques. |
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Also, language then becomes a means of examining the original form of human cognition. |
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This book entails the basis of the Scientific Method as a means of observation and induction. |
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In other words, the social relationships people enter into as they acquire and use the means of production. |
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The transmission system must include a means of television channel selection. |
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In the other hand, states issue optional identity cards for people who do not hold a driver's license as an alternate means of identification. |
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Today's philosophy tends to exclude empirical study of the natural world by means of the scientific method. |
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The DNI is the only means of identification permitted for participating in any civil, legal, commercial, administrative, and judicial acts. |
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Rivers also provide an easy means of disposing of waste water and, in much of the less developed world, other wastes. |
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The Communist government completely nationalized the means of production and established a command economy. |
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The naval code is a system of rules for making communications at sea by means of signals. |
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The holder of a debt could use it as a means of payment by transferring it to another party, without cash changing hands. |
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In Elvish, nasal infixion is a frequent means of forming derivatives from roots. |
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In Hooker's model, scripture is the primary means of arriving at doctrine and things stated plainly in scripture are accepted as true. |
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By itself, the act was not effective, as it provided no means of realisation. |
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Schimper came to the conclusion that ice must have been the means of transport for the boulders in the alpine upland. |
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Puddling was a means of decarburizing pig iron by slow oxidation as the iron was manually stirred using a long rod. |
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Words are the furnace by means of which merely subjective connections made by individual human beings are converted into noematic meanings. |
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In general, a mixed economy is characterized by a pragmatic division of the means of production between private ownership and public ownership. |
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English, Welsh and Irish banking companies circulated freely as a means of payment. |
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By the end of the war, turbojet engines were replacing piston engines as the means of propulsion, further increasing aircraft speed. |
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The bellows is the most recognizable part of the instrument, and the primary means of articulation. |
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Magna Carta was however novel in that it set up a formally recognised means of collectively coercing the King. |
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By means of this marriage, Henry VII hoped to break the Auld Alliance between Scotland and France. |
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Clan badges are another means of showing one's allegiance to a Scottish clan. |
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In such an economy, the means of production are owned by society itself and are utilised in a planned fashion. |
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Syndicalists advocate a socialist economy based on federated unions or syndicates of workers who own and manage the means of production. |
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The development of larger societies led to the development of different means of decision making and to governmental organization. |
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At the end of its period of use the tomb was 'closed' by means of a large stone set across the entrance, between the two portal stones. |
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Metallic silver and gold are removed and recovered economically by means of the Parkes process, in which zinc is added to lead. |
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To avoid this and similar problems, the Vedantins regard nonperception to be the means of cognizing an absence. |
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The tongue is also particularly high because, as with the ear, it would have formed the primary means of communication for the victim. |
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The grid's regularity provided an efficient means of developing new real estate property. |
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Atlanta has a network of freeways that radiate out from the city, and automobiles are the dominant means of transportation in the region. |
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The river was the economic backbone of the region, providing an important means of transport, trade and communication. |
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Embassadors were sent upon both parts, and divers means of entreaty were commoned of. |
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Porpoises were, and still are, hunted by some countries by means of drive hunting. |
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There, it is capable of moving slowly by means of attaching and detaching byssal threads to attain a better life position. |
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The crossing of the estuary of the River Conwy is by means of an immersed tube tunnel, the first of its kind constructed in the United Kingdom. |
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Drake's ship had been leading the English pursuit of the Armada by means of a lantern. |
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Surveillance was accomplished by means of intercepting the spies' communications. |
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In the past, through the means of the Auld Alliance with France, they had adapted their surname to the French form, Stuart. |
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Other seaweed may be used as fertilizer, compost for landscaping, or a means of combating beach erosion through burial in beach dunes. |
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His means of raising English revenue without an English Parliament fell critically short of achieving this. |
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In response to the Militia Ordinance, Charles revived the Commissions of Array as a means of summoning an army instead. |
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For a period, the Mersey may also have flowed into the Dee by means of a channel which it cut through the base of the Wirral Peninsula. |
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Gas may be conducted through the respiratory system by means of active ventilation or passive diffusion. |
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The English government intercepted very few of these means of communication. |
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A study of the age range of the population indicates little recruitment and fission is the primary means of reproduction in this species. |
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Sometimes taller buildings were levelled to the ground quickly and effectively by means of controlled gunpowder explosions. |
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Pedicellaria are a good means of defense against ectoparasites, but not a panacea as some of them actually feed on it. |
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Only male gametes of centric diatoms are capable of movement by means of flagella. |
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Demolishing the houses downwind of a dangerous fire was often an effective way of containing the destruction by means of firehooks or explosives. |
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The life cycle usually involves asexual reproduction by means of binary fission, either through desmoschisis or eleuteroschisis. |
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Dialects are probably an important means of maintaining group identity and cohesiveness. |
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Surface mining involves quarrying which is excavating minerals by means of machinery such as cutting, cleaving, and breaking. |
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Still, Sweden remained a poor and economically backward country in which barter was the means of exchange. |
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Some of these designs incorporate parabolic reflectors as a means of increasing the wave energy at the point of capture. |
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In endorheic bodies of standing water where evaporation is the primary means of water loss, the water is typically more saline than the oceans. |
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Radio amateurs had to establish emergency operations to support emergency services in means of communication. |
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Historically and today, most fish protein has come by means of catching wild fish. |
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A number of fast spreading plants such as kudzu have been introduced as a means of erosion control. |
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The above examples highlight the intent of humans to introduce species as a means of incurring some benefit. |
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This suggests that the most effective means of prevention is from the primary source. |
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In combat, the variability of wind power made rowing the chief means of propulsion. |
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Some Highland chieftains therefore viewed Jacobitism as a means of resisting hostile government intrusion into their territories. |
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The United States had partly funded the purchase by means of a loan from Baring Brothers, a British bank. |
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The torpedo boat would back away to a safe distance and detonate the torpedo, usually by means of a long cord attached to a trigger. |
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For this reason, community funds have been made available to fishing as a means of encouraging regional development. |
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Lacking means of reconnaissance, he devised a plan to armour a train with iron plates, machine gun and cannon. |
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The importance of holding the Channel Ports as the only means of supply and if necessary, evacuation, became vital for the Allies. |
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Normally the threat would have been dealt with by means of a counter-mine, but the tunnel was now far too close for that. |
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In Denmark, steamboats were a popular means of transportation in earlier times, mostly for recreational purposes. |
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In spice producing islands like Banda, rice was regularly imported from Java, to supply the deficiency in means of subsistence. |
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There are turns of style, by means of which any qualities can be described panegyrically. |
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This is accomplished by means of paired, forked hemipenes, which are stored, inverted, in the male's tail. |
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Its chief means of defence lies in the foul tasting secretion that is produced by its paratoid glands and other glands on its skin. |
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Rather than fighting for the right to mate with a female, male toads may settle disputes by means of the pitch of their voice. |
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Measurement of the ankle reflex time by means of a kinemometer has been shown to be a useful aid in the clinical diagnosis of hypothyroidism. |
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Nobody is forced to watch American films, and yet many in the world consider Hollywood a means of cultural imperialism. |
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By the 17th century John Seller divided the Atlantic Ocean in two parts by means of the equator. |
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The shelf is exploited for its oil by means of offshore drilling rigs, most of which are situated in the western gulf and in the Bay of Campeche. |
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During the 1950s and 1960s information about variations in the Earth's magnetic field was gathered largely by means of research vessels. |
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Although counties are no longer used for local governmental purposes, they remain a popular means of describing where places are. |
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The Gaelic Athletic Association still uses the counties as its primary means of organisation and fields representative teams of each GAA county. |
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The flight was considered proof that flying boats had evolved to become reliable means of long distance transport. |
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During the coast the correct orientation for third stage separation was maintained by means of the attitude control system. |
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As a complement to the kymograph, STUMPF has constructed a kymoscope, by means of which one can visualize the movements registered on a kymogram. |
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By the late 6th century, the principal means of religious instruction in the Church had become music and art rather than the book. |
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But I hold not a diagramme the only way and means of demonstrating, nor so generally necessary as you seem to urge. |
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In the first years of the twentieth century, railway companies sought for cheaper means of carrying passengers on lightly used lines. |
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The precise dates and means of formation of the lordships varied, as did their size. |
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Capitalism is marked by open competition in a free market, in which the means of production are privately owned. |
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Revenue Cutter Service, with assistance from Sheldon Jackson, as a means of providing a livelihood for Native peoples there. |
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Before bridges were built, the main means of crossing the river was by ferry. |
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Perhaps he simply ran for local office as a means of gaining support back home, and lost to some other local worthy. |
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The term Windische was applied to the latter group as a means of distinction. |
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However, for the most part these represent shared retentions, which are not valid means of grouping languages. |
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The notion that different means of obtaining information may lead to different findings may be disconcerning at first but should not be. |
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Caesar provides his account of the Druids as a means of sharing his knowledge and educating the Roman people on the foreign conquests. |
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He achieved this through various means of generosity and a cutting back of lavish excess. |
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These baths were later expanded by the third century emperor Decius as a means of stressing his link to Trajan. |
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It is also thought of as implying that the Church is endowed with all the means of salvation for its members. |
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In addition to economic trade, the Silk Road served as a means of carrying out cultural trade among the civilizations along its network. |
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African slavery had existed long before Europeans discovered it as an exploitable means of creating an inexpensive labour force for the colonies. |
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Eukaryotic parasites may also be grown in culture as a means of identifying a particular agent. |
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Thou hast shown me the means of revenge, and be assured I will embrace them. |
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By means of the expansion of the Eastern Orthodox church, Byzantine forms and styles spread to all the Orthodox world and beyond. |
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Physicians began to think of the Pill as an excellent means of birth control for young women. |
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In many archaic dwellings the central pillar does in fact serve as a means of communication with the heavens, with the sky. |
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Common ostriches have evolved a 'selective brain cooling' mechanism as a means of thermoregulation. |
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The first saddle was positioned to the back of the camel, and control of the Bactrian camel was exercised by means of a stick. |
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Persian Sassanid coins emerged as a means of currency, just as valuable as silk yarn and textiles. |
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Trephining was a means of treating epilepsy by opening a hole in the skull through drilling or cutting. |
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This led to the practice of penance and pilgrimage as a means of curing illness. |
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During the Renaissance, trade routes were the perfect means of transportation for disease. |
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Product line extension is the procedure of entering a new market segment in its product class by means of using a current brand name. |
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Above the core is the radiation zone, where the plasma conveys the energy flux by means of radiation. |
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The fueros provided a means of escape from the feudal system, as fueros were only granted by the monarch. |
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Following independence, the country had a centrally directed economy with most means of production owned and controlled by the state. |
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The army is viewed not only as a social leveler but also as a means of unifying a country with three cultures and four languages. |
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Most of the means of production are owned and run by the government and most of the labor force is employed by the state. |
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The Merchant Venturers also support, through the means of charitable grants, many other organisations and causes within the greater Bristol area. |
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The branch did this to some extent, but the principal means of profit came from commercial transactions. |
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This became the classic means of measuring the charge and mass of the electron. |
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Then were the horse hoofs broken by the means of the prancings, the prancings of their mighty ones. |
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Having devised a means of measuring gamma radiation, Chadwick proceeded to measure the absorption of gamma rays by various gases and liquids. |
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Gunboat diplomacy is the use of conspicuous displays of military strength as a means of intimidation in order to influence others. |
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Private vehicles and taxis are the primary means of transportation in the city. |
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Although canoes were once primarily a means of transport, with industrialization they became popular as recreational or sporting watercraft. |
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In the early part of Brunel's life, the use of railways began to take off as a major means of transport for goods. |
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It was an effective means of propulsion under ideal conditions but otherwise had serious drawbacks. |
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Firstly, there was no convenient means of operating the line as single track as the line predated the telegraph. |
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This method drastically reduced the importance of lunars as a means of verifying chronometers. |
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Since the event occurred at a known time, it provided an accurate means of determining longitude. |
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Statehood might be useful as a means of dealing with the financial crisis, since it would allow for bankruptcy and the relevant protection. |
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Lack of expansive working, or any means of control of the cutoff, is also a serious problem with many such designs. |
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The females are usually only seen spitting as a means of controlling other herd members. |
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Ujung Kulon has been equipped with various means of telecommunications networks, electricity, and clean water. |
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Those nonverbal means of communication that are used tend to be presymbolic. |
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To those who would not heed the gently flowing stream of Shiloah he spoke by means of the Euphratean flood. |
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The entrepreneurs of the Virginia Company experimented with a number of means of making the colony profitable. |
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