It wouldn't be a method of choice.
The use of a riot control agent near a checkpoint at an intersection in the circumstances described is not considered to be a method of warfare".
It might be a method of gaining clout, or it might be something more symbiotic and interesting: late-night television that you actually care about again.
It may be that your manager is simply trying to be one of the gang, but it could also be a method of control.
Putting arms beyond use could be a method of destroying arms or sealing off arms caches that would allow the I.R.A. to disarm in a way that did not constitute surrender in its eyes.
His fascination with the unconscious ignites his fear of its fickleness, its ruthless and random devastations: few poets have made so much of spooking themselves, which must be a method of keeping those demons at bay.
He considered zazen not only to be a method of moving toward enlightenment but also, if properly experienced, to constitute enlightenment itself.
Tantrism is thought to be a method of conquering transcendent powers and realizing oneness with the highest principle by Yogic and ritual means in part magical and orgiastic which are also supposed to achieve other supranormal goals.
Dancing often seems to be a method of releasing pent-up energy, as when a bird dances on its own or when a dancing pair sets off dancing in nearby individuals of a flock.
To assert, for example, that it already embodies a solution to the mind-body problem (see mind-body dualism) presupposes that it is possible to determine what that solution is; yet there does not seem to be a method of doing so that does not entangle one in all the familiar difficulties associated with that debate.
Secrecy can be a method of control, as it allows the patient to determine with whom she discusses the diagnosis.
