But illegal migration routes and methods are as diverse as the people who use them.
His methods are as experimental as science, as passionate as music, and as lucid as philosophy.
The Bureau strives to ensure that its data sets and analysis methods are as robust as possible.
There's more to it than adrenaline, though: her methods are as tightly choreographed as those of a special-effects master.
All these methods are as old as warfare, yet at the same time they remain relevant to the present age.
Like Feste, Touchstone, in "As You Like It," is something of a professor of the life sciences, but his methods are as coarse as Feste's are kind.
Their methods are as varied as their media, but they tend to coalesce around one of four approaches: the investigatory, the parafictional, the interrogative, and the interruptive.
And if the new methods are as popular as many family planners say they will be, they might even make a dent in the 49 percent rate of unplanned pregnancy in the United States.
Kurzman, a sociologist who has written widely about Islamic reform movements, asks: "If terrorist methods are as widely available as automobiles, why are there so few Islamist terrorists?
"The methods are as varied as the wildlife themselves, ranging from fences, bridges and tunnels to electronic animal-detection warning systems," said Victor Mendez, the agency's administrator.
Ages determined by stratigraphic or radiometric methods are as great as 50,000,000 years in western Africa and more than 23,000,000 years in Australia, but duricrust formation is occurring today in some places.
