The phrase "roundabout method" is correct and commonly used in written English.
You can use it when referring to an indirect approach to achieving a desired outcome, such as a problem-solving strategy. For example: "The team decided to take a roundabout method to solve the problem."
How strange to have the American vernacular put back in our mouths by this roundabout method.
Yes, we should cheer when underperfoming bosses are held to greater account – and the roundabout method is definitely better than silence.
If you come up short you can buy extra points, but they don't come cheap – they're around $15 for 100, but the purpose of the service is to encourage trading games, not buying them through a roundabout method.
Asking whether this is the artist's first solo show can often be a roundabout method for a decaying old collector to not telegraph his youth-obsessed neuroses.
However, if you know just one of these pieces of information as well as the slant height of the pyramid, you can find the volume of the pyramid via a roundabout method involving the famous Pythagorean Theorem.
Benjamin's roundabout methods can be seen in his best-known literary essays, the examinations of Proust, Baudelaire, and Kafka published in "Illuminations".
As I began to explore a minute fraction of these combinations from the third grade onwards, my mind began to formulate roundabout methods to solve any mathematical problem, address any literature prompt, and discover any exit in an undesirable situation.
In the present case, the conservation of the Fabri-Pérot interference pattern uniformity has been used as a roundabout optical method to exclude that the preservation of the PS matrix, observed in Figure 2, was due to just a superficial passivation acted by the immobilized proteins.
Such roundabout shipping methods are unnecessarily wasteful.
The most commonly used methods (although not the only ones) for estimating the critical headway - or the minimum acceptable gap during which a minor-street vehicle can enter an unsignalized intersection or a roundabout - are the methods of Raff [23] and Troutbeck [24, 25].
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