Sentence examples for functions as a means of from inspiring English sources

As Michelle Alexander details in her book The New Jim Crow, our mass incarceration system functions as a means of social control in much the same way that Jim Crow laws and even slavery did.

The mask, therefore, most often functions as a means of contact with various spirit powers, thereby protecting against the unknown forces of the universe by prevailing upon their potential beneficence in all matters relative to life.

It also functions as a means of expression and storytelling for our characters during their debutante ball and, ultimately, it unites the cast and audience at the end in a communal dance party.

Thus, the IgM-mediated size-restrictive clearance is likely to functions as a means of achieving apoptotic cell clearance without promoting inflammation.

The cognitive avoidance hypothesis (Borkovec, Alcaine, & Behar, 2004; Sibrava & Borkovec, 2006) suggests that the predominantly verbal nature of worry functions as a means of avoiding potentially distressing imagery.

Thus the current study aimed to investigate several purported parietal functions as a means of assessing whether supposed impairment in earlier M-pathway functioning in dyslexia would lead to an impairment of all visually driven parietal functions receiving their visual projection via the dorsal stream and whether this was related to general nonverbal problem solving ability.

The tar also functions as a means to protect the identity of some of these individuals.

He joked that Brazil's population of 200 million would be reduced by half if homosexuality were encouraged because "the excretory system" does not function as a means of reproduction.

Panegyric's function as a means of extolling the virtues of the tribe and its leaders was easily transferred, albeit within a very different political and social context, from the pre-Islamic period to the Islamic.

In these allegations the act was apparently performed with the pig's head resting on a colleague's lap, and functioned as a means of entry into the notorious Piers Gaveston society, supposedly posher than Bullingdon (although friends deny Cameron was ever a member of the Piers Gaveston society).

An argument may, for example, function as a means of instilling fear or hope or disapprobation.