Video contests have become another popular means of generating ad revenue from user-generated video.
But social media has, in its own way, provided us a means of generating other selves.
And then there's the brutalist school, which sees them purely as a means of generating profit.
If you rely on donations as a means of generating income, then the answer is probably yes.
Cruise companies have long used it as a means of generating interest in liners that can take years to build.
This leads to Mr Akhtar's brutal run-up and elaborate action as alternative means of generating pace on the ball.
But many hotels are also viewing expanded fitness centers as a means of generating revenue from what used to be considered a money-losing perk.
Promoters have always relied on the appeal of home-town heroes doing battle with villainous foreigners as an easy and reliable means of generating interest in their product.
And of course we are now in the eighth year of the council tax freeze, with councils' only significant means of generating additional income having been effectively abolished.
As I have said before, these structures are essentially religious in purpose, designed to demonstrate ecological faith, because as a means of generating energy they are nearly hopeless.
Using Edgar Allan Poe as its literary catnip, the new novel tries to use Poe-related ratiocination as a means of generating Poe fever.
