"mean" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- "That was simply an expedient means of getting me into an officer's uniform," Lowell said.
- Despite believing in an afterlife, the Klingons perform no burial rites, and dispose of corpses by the most expedient means available.
- The Soviets viewed the treaty as merely a necessary and expedient means to end the war.
- Although such behavior at times made Bradford uncomfortable, he found it an expedient means of maintaining the treaty with the Pokanoket.
- The sutra goes on to say these that the teachings of the three vehicles are merely expedient means (upāya).
- We'll have to de termine the most expedient means of punishing him, too: fi some way to remind the Tosevites.
- Sublime might have the boy murdered as an expedient means of dulling the Grail Empire's teeth.
- A disciple of the Buddha must not himself use false words and speech, or encourage others to lie or lie by expedient means.
- The Lotus Sutra contains a famous upaya story about using the expedient means of white lies to rescue children from a burning building.
- It differs from demolition where a site is cleared of its building by the most expedient means.
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