"mean" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- If possible, take no direct action to alter events in the world, act through indirect means only.
- So investigators are turning to indirect means of measuring past temperatures.
- Because the Fed doesn't control long-term rates directly, it relies on such indirect means to influence the long end of the market.
- But it must also be noted that he used several indirect means to obtain and support his authority with the people.
- Administration of the empire was performed through largely traditional, indirect means.
- So it is now trying a new, indirect means of, in effect, abolishing private education.
- I do not know whether you would be able to kill him through indirect means.
- To my mind, more has to be done to counter fraud by indirect means.
- This agreement is therefore an indirect means of promoting mutual understanding.
- He decided to try and detect the problem through indirect means.
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