alternative means

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Disarmament without providing soldiers with training, as well as help in finding alternative means of livelihood, leads to instability and internal crises.
Provision is necessary for alternative means of transportation so that a driving prohibition does not lead to social isolation and frustration.
The pamphlet suggests transport solutions after having stopped driving and lists sources of information about alternative means.
The alternative means of composition is a matter of philosophical choice.
When such possibilities are not available, this paper has shown an alternative means of improving the incentives to produce real emission reductions.
The effect of unsteady, aperiodic strain and rotation must be examined by alternative means.
This dilemma has led to consideration of self-help as an alternative means of meeting the needs of this population.
They advocated alternative means of resisting the anticlerical policies.
It would, for example, provide an alternative means of launching satellites.
Moreover, if alternative means are explained, they are distributed in different chapters so that the access to the information costs extra time and energy.
These songs invoke the train's mechanical force as an alternative means of relating the inherent dangers and difficulties of a migrating lifestyle.
Let us concede that the beggar has no alternative means of finding subsistence.
If we should not expect ethnohistory to provide the rigid literary documentation that history demands, then what is the alternative means of proof for ethnohistory?
The alternative means of clothing acquisition which co-existed with these commercial practices were more diffuse.
Persuasion, along with coercion and incentives, must be included among the alternative means of exerting power and influence.
However, it can be seen as potentially an alternative means of achieving what specially written graded readers have traditionally been designed to do.
Therefore, this system - which is intended to process text, not speech - has an alternative means of knowing that a sentence is interrogative.
Far more women were finding alternative means of reaching their destinations.
By early 1996, though, the treasury bond market had reached a critical mass, offering the government an alternative means of raising fast cash.
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