Sentence examples for a dependable means from inspiring English sources

The safety fuse provided a dependable means for conveying flame to the charge.

Combined with Bickford's safety fuse, the blasting cap provided a dependable means for detonating nitroglycerin and the many other high explosives that followed it.

Whereas in Social Statics, he regards universal suffrage as a dependable means of preventing government from overreaching its duty of sticking to protecting moral rights proper, by the later Principles of Ethics he concludes that universal suffrage fails to do this effectively and so he abandons his support of it.

This study demonstrates that audit-based feedback is a dependable means of improving compliance with SSC guidelines.

The latter have a battery power source for energizing one or more capacitors and a safe, dependable means for discharging the stored energy.

Avant-garde filmmakers are increasingly taking advantage of the Internet, which might prove a more dependable means of distribution for work that has historically been available only for brief periods of time.

The empowerment (financial, educational, personal) of women is frequently cited as one of the most dependable means for improving the welfare of a developing community; and the education and positive rearing of children is consistently proven to be the most significant determinant of their health and success as adults.

Because of the risks inherent in its manufacture and the lack of dependable means for its detonation, nitroglycerin was largely a laboratory curiosity until Immanuel Nobel and his son Alfred made extensive studies of its commercial potential in the years 1859 61.

Increasingly, I work out her meaning by listening to the shifting intonations of her guttural hum, and we have accepted trial and error as our most dependable means of communication: What was that?

"Privatizing the World Trade Center," he said, "means a dependable source of revenue to fund regional transportation improvements over the next 99 years".

That didn't mean there wasn't a dependable audience for them out there – and when the movies failed to deliver, television picked up the slack.