The phrase "a constructive means" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when referring to a method or approach that is helpful or beneficial in achieving a goal or solving a problem.
Example: "We need to find a constructive means to address the issues raised during the meeting."
Alternatives: "a helpful method" or "a positive approach".
An intervention which provides support and a sense of a shared experience appears to have beneficial effects for mothers of children with feeding problems and therefore, may offer a constructive means of supporting this population.
While this isn't saying that crying is running away, it does mean that you will need to find a constructive means for dealing with the issue, even after you've had a good cry (somewhere).
Previously this had been achieved by constructive means, in the studio; now meditation, improvisation, and a willingness to allow the "voices" of the world to speak in his music became more important.
Hilbert's formalist program, to justify classical mathematics by reducing it to a formal system whose consistency should be established by finitistic (hence constructive) means, was the most powerful contemporary rival to Brouwer's developing intuitionism.
Which means that the people will have very little means constructive means through which to channel their discontent and hope for a free and democratic Burma unless the pro-democracy movement can organize an opposition force within the next three months, a feat that would be daunting even in an open society that permitted freedom of speech, association and movement.
Previously this had been achieved by constructive means in the studio.
Starving the population and engineering the collapse of their civil institutions are not, in our view, constructive means of disagreeing with Hamas.
In our brief sketch we did not notice this "change of logic" because, like much of elementary mathematics, the topics we discussed are naturally treated by constructive means such as direct computation.
Learning to turn this friction into constructive means of devising and testing assumptions--learning to overcome impasses--should be of considerable value to workaday scientists". "Offers a very instructive account of the work and ideas of several important figures of the history of the life sciences from the second half of the 19th century to the present...
The secular too often chide or dismiss religion while despairing at their own understanding of the world, rather than using it for constructive means.
In order to truly make our communities safer, we must make sure that people who have served their time are able to fully and productively engage in our society -- whether through education or employment or some other constructive means.
