Sentence examples for means of relieving from inspiring English sources

And a century later, even Adam Smith, the great prophet of capitalism, was advocating festivities and art as a means of relieving melancholy.

Typically, people who seek exorcism are distraught and have exhausted conventional means of relieving an inner turmoil that has long plagued them, experts said, and generally exhibit violent or other abnormal behavior.

But corrections "are a healthy means of relieving the excesses in the market and of restoring a healthy respect for risk," said James B. Stack, editor of the InvesTech Market Analyst, a newsletter published in Whitefish, Mont.

Andy Burnham, the shadow health secretary, said it made no sense to close so many walk-in centres, which were popular with patients and an important means of relieving pressure on A&E departments.

Stricker, who heard about Westwood's strategy of mentally de-emphasizing the importance of the event as a means of relieving the pressure, said that is easier said than done.

It is unclear whether this is because the state has made citizens somehow overlook its control of daily lives, or whether oblivion is a useful means of relieving psychological stress.

Previous work has attributed the thermal oxidation of Si inducing a drastic lateral expansion of the silicon lattice [12] and the generation of silicon self-interstitials as a means of partially relieving the compressive stress in the growing oxide layer that develops as a result of a 2.25× volume expansion when Si is converted to SiO2.

The pressing of lips may have then become a general means for relieving anxiety.

The principle of double effect could arguably be used as an ethical dividing line that approves of palliative sedation but forbids euthanasia, since the latter but not the former directly intends death (as a means to the good end of relieving the patient of unbearable suffering).

We all ultimatley belong to each other, and our current system of grossly over-individualized prosecution and punishment is simply a means to relieve ourselves of community responsibility in general, and excuse ourselves from personal guilt in particular.

Early societies evolved several means to relieve the monotony of one person's singing.