Formal asylum systems in EU countries have far more rigorous means of checking the backgrounds of asylum seekers.
The lunar-distance method could be made available more quickly and was the only means of checking the performance of a ship-board timekeeper.
For one thing, the voters seem quite happy with cohabitation, partly as a means of checking the power of both president and prime minister.
The transformation of the media into a centre of power and influence, instead of remaining a means of checking the activities of the centres of power and influence has changed the nature of the media role.
Verification is a means of checking compliance; it is not relevant in the context of NPT Article VI, which sets no specific milestones to be checked and leaves it to the P5 to determine their own progress.
The prisoners are used as a sort of reference work, as a means of checking new names that come up in the hearings, or as a catalyst toward achieving a better understanding of how fundamentalists think.
But if the defense authorities found 200 Japanese-Americans missing and they wanted the names of the Japanese-Americans in that area, Mr. Capt said, "I would give them further means of checking individuals".
Party conventions were instituted as a means of checking the abuses of the caucus system but also became subject to abuses, which led first to their regulation and ultimately to their elimination for most offices except president and vice president.
The vague economic logic of the argument is a pretext for Wilde to vent his rage on an audience that treated him as an amusing sideshow: The public make use of the classics of a country as a means of checking the progress of Art.
Not for nothing are the White House and other supporters of the T.P.P. busy promoting it as way of defining some rules for a more Asia-centric world, and also — in traditional mercantile fashion — as a means of checking a rising rival power, in this case China.
