The flowers are, therefore, usually erect and provide platforms for landing.
The techniques involved (see Graphical Abstract) also provide platforms for research and refinement of breeding methodologies.
Apple, Barnes & Noble and Kobo also provide platforms for publishing an e-book and selling it at their stores.
Committee inquiries themselves, and government consultations, will also provide platforms for presentation of ideas in written and sometimes oral format.
Too many meetings, sales and others, simply provide platforms for one-way communication about how wonderful the company is.
The barges provide platforms for equipment and workers quarters, and enclose the floating tanks through mooring fender systems.
We journalists, at times, unintentionally provide platforms for the manipulators — because we are often passive recipients of documents that may be leaked, hacked or stolen.
The latest wave of interactive networking tools provide platforms for making rapid progress on issues that people care about, while bypassing the need for top-down decision-making.
But organizations also are political structures which provide opportunities for people to develop careers and therefore provide platforms for the expression of individual interests and motives.
There are now automated systems that provide platforms for organizing, analyzing, and visualizing patents across an industry, for conducting patent audits, and for uncovering competitors' strategies.
However, the media can provide platforms for evidence-holders to get ideas across to other stake-holders, to officials, to advisers, and occasionally to ministers themselves.
