Thomas Jefferson argued that maple sugar (which is produced by further boiling the syrup) offered a means of self-sufficiency for early settlers.
An analog device that lets the user manipulate a video signal in real time, it offered a means of producing animated images and special effects long before the advent of digital video technology.
Chinmoy, who had been a decathlete, believed that extreme physical pursuits offered a means of transcending the self, and, in May of 1978, he encouraged his followers to take part in a twenty-four-hour bicycle race in Central Park.
The concept nods to the statue of Columbus, atop a pillar in Barcelona's harbor, a reminder of the era when water offered a means of disproving that the earth was flat.
The hinterland of Manchester, Liverpool, Birmingham and London now extended around the world to Africa, India and Australia; while in Great Expectations and Charles Kingsley's Alton Locke the colonial life offered a means of escape from the poverty and misery of Victorian Britain.
However, funerary architecture often offered a means of "moving beyond the strictures of formal Muslim burial rites" and expressing social dimensions such as status, piety, love for the deceased, and Muslim identity.
