Sentence examples for a means of causing from inspiring English sources

The R notation relates to the fact that particular verbs may express either an instance of causing someone to receive something, as with hand, or a means of causing someone to receive something, as with kick: what Joe kicked Bill the ball means is that Joe caused Bill to receive the ball by means of a kicking action.

"But while it may be justified in cultural terms, it is a form of violence and a means of repressing female sexuality which causes lasting and irreversible physical and psychological damage".

Banned in Stalin's USSR, Erdman's drama features a man whose declaration that he is about to kill himself is hijacked by those around him, who see in his death a means of bolstering their own causes.

Former slaves wrote autobiographies as an assertion of their humanity and a means of galvanizing the abolitionist cause.

As a means to cause inactivation of NCX1 without changing cytoplasmic free Ca, we included polylysine in ATP-free cytoplasmic solutions to bind anionic phospholipids prior to activation of exchange current by Ca (47). Figure 6 A shows results with 20 μM heptalysine added to cytoplasmic solutions.

"If the defendants are or have become disciples of Al Qaeda," the judge said, "and believe in self-destruction as a legitimate means of causing harm to others, there are no conditions that could be imposed that would deter such acts of self-destruction other than detention".

If it is possible to predict the place/point of destruction of a rope or a chain by a means of tenseness causing warming, than it is also possible to search for disruptions on static ropes, but at suitable conditions.

It was purchased by the army in World War II to rip up aerodrome runways and railway lines if an invasion took place as means of causing disruption, making it useless for the would-have-been occupiers on the act of resistance.

"For the TSA model to work, every single possible means of causing danger to an aircraft or its passengers must be eliminated," he continued.

Our previous studies confirmed that PM2.5 hurt the human immune system by means of causing the imbalance of Th1/Th2 lymphocytes.

For there might be other means of causing death which are more effective and/or accessible 6 than the smallpox virus, and which are harder to block.