Sentence examples for means of filling from inspiring English sources

But the king also found another means of filling his exchequer that had nothing to do with traditional methods: he began to sell offices on a large scale.

Shadow home secretary Andy Burnham said the move sounds like a "back-door means" of filling cuts and "could lead to policing on the cheap".

"I been reading your father's book and it's really making me... think... about stuff," he yammers to the Fellowship of the Sun, proving that it's not so much an intellectual decision as a means of filling a hole.

Still, a levy imposed on a commodity like cigarettes, sometimes referred to as a "sin tax," is intended less as a means of filling government coffers than as a way of enforcing a social mandate.

"He is the first man," he wrote, "to make the presidency a part-time job, a means of filling up a few of the otherwise blank days of retirement".

The Pope warned media can be used as a way of avoiding listening to others and of evading physical contact, or as a means of filling up moments of silence or time when we should be resting.

The two kinds of kaolin filled ultra-high molecular weight polyethylene (UHMWPE) based composites (UHMWPE/kaolin) were prepared by means of polymerization filling and melt mixing, respectively.

In this paper, we propose a method that adjusts the grating spectral properties by means of injecting filling solution, which could modify the thermal radiation in a fabricated microstructure.

Most carious tooth surfaces were filled (mean number of filled surfaces: 12.3; standard deviation: 12.7), followed by non-cavitated decayed surfaces (mean: 9.0; standard deviation: 8.3), crowned surfaces (mean: 5.8; standard deviation: 10.6), cavitated decayed surfaces (mean: 4.3; standard deviation: 7.1), and missing surfaces (mean: 1.6; standard deviation: 4.6).

At physiological maturity, the following morphological traits were studied in case of N22 and NH219, viz., plant height (length of the tallest tiller upto tip of panicle in cm), number of tillers, number of panicles (number of panicles with seeds exceeding 15%), length of panicle (length from neck to last spikelet of main panicle in cm), and yield/plant (mean weight of filled seeds from 22 plants).

Among populations, the mean number of filled fruits per plant ranged 1.4 14.4, the percentage of aborted flowers 0.0 9.3%, the percentage of depredated fruits 0.0 4.6%, the mean number of seeds per fruit 29.0 43.4, and the mean seed weight 2.0 2.9×10−5 g (Table 3).