The phrase "through the means" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when you trying to explain how something was achieved or accomplished. For example: "We were able to complete the project quickly through the means of delegating tasks to individual team members."
"The academy is an attempt at creating peace through the means of music," said Barenboim, who holds Argentinian, Israeli and Palestinian citizenships.
There were cockatrices and lions and manticores -- beasts, which (the Queen hoped) might be made to tear Elizabeth to pieces through the means of magic and embroidery.
Alongside church pictorial painting, ecclesiastical plastic arts developed; even painting in the three-dimensional form was introduced through the means of perspective.
The first is that, 20 years from now, businessmen will continue to travel regularly to appointments rather than make their presentations through the means provided by new technology.
The demand for response from all of us through the means available to us, most often our social networks, rises in part because we can feel so impotent in our day-to-day lives.
One of the most noteworthy aspects of yesterday's decision was how broadly it deferred to Congress's "fully legitimate interest in... preventing corruption of federal electoral processes through the means it has chosen".
"The occupying forces do not have in any way the legal competence to select members of a constitutional assembly," he wrote, insisting it should happen only "through the means of an open election".
At Holloway's 2014 Perth festival, while seeing the extraordinary centrepiece The Refusal of Time by South African artist William Kentridge, I realised that my cumulative experience of shows at that festival had been a guided journey through the means by which art, combined with place, can displace an individual's relationship to time.
But all I can find in Glass's Ninth (the whole piece is here) is a vapid combination of vamp-till-ready underscore inflated through the means of pseudo-symphonic rhetoric and souped-up orchestration until it blows up into something actually unpleasant, an artificially pumped-up symphony that sounds like it has overdosed on synthetic musical implants.
We believe it is imperative that any conclusions reached by the Premier League are done so through the means of an objective audit in which employees are given the opportunity to express their views anonymously to an independent body," said Women in Football.
Before the loan, she said last week, she lacked the money to rent space at trade shows, where she has a better chance of making more and larger wholesale deals with stores than through the means she had largely been limited to before.
