How anybody assumed that was a sound method of preparing for the rigours of Test cricket is a mystery.
Both have saved millions of lives during the past decade, and have paved the way to a new more efficient and scientifically sound method of development assistance.
As much as anything New Zealand were testing a young man who appears to have a sound method with at least another gear in hand.
"When our words are not enough," he said, "the threat of the withdrawal of our love and affection is the only sound method to impress on him that he had better conform to our request".
We persist in this inefficient approach despite the fact that a perfectly sound method of selective spraying is known, which can achieve long-term vegetational control and eliminate repeated spraying of most types of vegetation.
If such regulations were issued, the agency could require that utilities dispose of dry ash in lined landfills, considered the most environmentally sound method of disposal, but also the most expensive.
We simply want to ensure the most efficient and environmentally sound method of utilizing our precious coal and water resources for the benefit of the broadest number of people possible.
Bearing in mind the Migration Observatory's warning that there is no sound method for calculating a reliable figure, the suggestion by the Romanian ambassador that the yearly total might be nearer 10,000 than 50,000 seems a far more likely guess.
Outside Arabic and the Southwest Semitic languages, the sound method of plural formation predominates, though residual traces in the remaining Semitic languages, as in Syriac ḥemrā, plural of ḥəmārā 'donkey,' suggest that broken plurals cannot be regarded solely as a peculiarity of the languages of the southern area.
To them, there was another, more logically sound, method to construct theories.
Effective critiquing is a sound method for assessing, teaching and learning new technology.
