The phrase "as a means of continuing" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing methods or strategies for maintaining progress or ongoing actions.
Example: "The committee implemented new policies as a means of continuing their efforts to improve community engagement."
Alternatives: "as a way to persist" or "to facilitate ongoing".
It apparently originated in 1522, after the Spanish conquest of the Chichimec tribe, as a means of continuing ancient ritual.
The birthday bashes were established five years ago as a means of continuing Stevens' influential work in promoting the city's cultural life.
Put bluntly: unable to effect anything like a cure in the severe mental pathologies, at an entirely unconscious and weirdly collective level psychiatry turned its attention to less marked psychic distress as a means of continuing to secure what sociologists term "professional closure".
Prisons and concentration camps were exploited by Franco's regime long after the Civil War had ended – in 1944, five years after the defeat of the Republic, the dictatorship was still considering opening new camps – as a means of continuing and enforcing the eradication of concepts Franco regarded as "un-Spanish" such as democracy, workers' rights and political and religious freedoms.
Paul Newman established the Foundation in 2005, as a means of continuing his pledge to donate to charity all net profits and royalties from the sale of products from Newman's Own , Inc
The patients take into account not only their experiences with the medical system, but also their social situation and often try to use advance directives as a means of continuing communication in a situation when they cannot express themselves anymore.
His emphasis on the necessity of religious worship as a means of salvation continued in a more systematic context the devotional effusions of the Alvars, the 7th 10th century poet-mystics of southern India, whose verse became incorporated into temple worship.
One participant was not clear which member of the clinical team she had been speaking with prior to being asked to complete the survey: "was that a doctor…" (P10) Measuring patient/user satisfaction will be a requirement for all UK medical practitioners as a means of informing continued professional development and revalidation.
Finally, recent work in 65-nm feature size as a means to continue the evolution of readout chip technology towards smaller feature size, higher rate, and lower power is presented.
This prompt may stem from his seeming discomfort with the topic, or may be an attempt to get Jill to say something more, or at least more content-rich than "dunno", a word she uses with regularity, and which may serve as a means of taking or continuing a turn in the presence of severe expressive aphasia.
Occupational therapists in Atlantic Canada have explored the use of online discussion groups, or 'on-line communities of practice', to enhance communication between occupational therapists in similar areas of practice, to increase the speed of obtaining evidence for practice, and as a means of professional development for continuing competency requirements with their regulatory colleges [ 14].
