Sentence examples for handy means from inspiring English sources

Finally, high-voltage DC provides a handy means for synchronising AC systems that operate on different frequencies.

X-ray is also a handy means of testing diamons; he has been commissioned by curators of museums to pass on the authenticity of objects of arts.

Europe's myriad growth-company stockmarkets now provide a handy means for venture capitalists to cash out as their investments mature, so encouraging them to invest more in young firms.

The Internet has provided a handy means of linking up supply chains, in real time, in order to put this revolution into effect.Mass customisation the selling of highly individual products but on a mass scale is a logical next step in the progress of BTO ("build-to-order"), the manufacturing of goods only as and when there is an order from a customer.

Aswany is in London to promote his new book, Friendly Fire, a collection of stories, and a controversial novella, The Isam Abd el-Ati Papers, which was banned in Egypt for a decade but now finds itself enjoying a new lease of life thanks to publishers who look at his back catalogue as a handy means of sating readers' appetites until the next novel.

This was a handy means of sending vital information over distances where a human voice could not carry.

This is just the latest, handiest means, though Republicans are openly hoping for more.

Some people feel that way today, although the first thing many of us do when we find ourselves alone with our thoughts is to reach for the handiest means of drowning them out — by putting on a pair of headphones, say, or by sliding a disk into the car's CD player.

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In this climate, younger artists have discovered age to be as handy a means to shock as religion was in the 1950's or sex in the 1960's.

The handy tube means you're never caught out when the sun appears: if you make a long detour via the beach, park or pub garden just whip it out and massage in quickly for high, durable protection.