Yes, the genre is a means of inducing helpless communal laughter.
Meditating on and uttering the sacred syllable were considered a means of inducing a mystical union with the divine essence.
One thing that is happening rather quickly is the distribution of money to businesses as a means of inducing them to remain in Lower Manhattan.
This course of influence, known as "opinion leadership," is frequently utilized by publicists as a means of inducing people to reconsider and quite possibly change their own views.
"Rebuilding Downtown" (editorial, April 3) noted that the state and city have moved fairly quickly to distribute grants to downtown businesses "as a means of inducing them to remain in Lower Manhattan".
In a certain sense, then, the entire ritual followed the old Latin dictum do ut des ("I give so that you may give"), in providing a means of inducing the powerful deities to act with favour toward human beings.
More recently, meditation on the Tao ("Way") has been emphasized as the path to self-enlightenment and as an effective means of inducing a state of selfless trance, which is the highest of all goals.
Walking the streets can be a form of social engagement, even of political action when we walk in concert, as we do in uprisings, demonstrations, and revolutions, but it can also be a means of inducing reverie, subjectivity, and imagination, a sort of duet between the prompts and interrupts of the outer world and the flow of images and desires (and fears) within.
Wales may be staring at their second Six Nations whitewash in four years, but their coach, Gareth Jenkins, yesterday resisted the temptation to use selection as a means of inducing a response from his players by sticking with the team which lost to Italy in Rome last weekend for Saturday's visit of England to the Millennium Stadium.
But Seoul and the southwestern provinces of North and South Jeolla, traditionally a progressive stronghold, chose the liberal Mr. Moon, who championed bold economic investment in North Korea as a means of inducing denuclearization and more aggressive measures to tame the conglomerates, which have been widely blamed for growing economic inequality.
Bubble motion is the primary means of inducing particle motion in fluidised beds.
