Examples of use of by this means
1. "By this means the public can better understand the background and rationale behind that published statement and the extent to which reliance upon those final conclusions was in fact justified.
2. Until now, stem cell production by this means required healthy unfertilized eggs –– and those have been impossible to obtain, Eggan said, since various states passed legislation banning payments to women who donate eggs for stem cell research.
3. The cognitive dissonance between the self–image and the reality was exemplified, for instance, by the commander of the Air Force, who in one of his briefings this week took care to repeatedly term Hezbollah and Hassan Nasrallah "the terrorist gang" and "the gang leader," with an almost childish emphasis, as though by this means, he would exterminate the rat with mere words, and also prove that Hezbollah and Nasrallah were beneath the dignity of such a noble and sublime air force.
4. We are much reassured, meanwhile, by the words of top experimental physicist Greg Landsberg of Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island, who tells America‘s LiveScience magazine that despite fears of assorted doom–mongers that the opening next year in Switzerland of the world‘s most powerful particle accelerator – or "black hole factory" – will lead to a stray black hole swallowing the planet in its entirety, the chances of global annihilation by this means are, in fact, "totally minuscule". A number of eminently respectable Christian and other groups in the US have, it seems, recently stressed the urgent necessity for mankind to start "founding self–sustaining colonies elsewhere", because the artificial black holes that may be produced by Cern‘s Large Hadron Collider "threaten all life on Earth". Needless to say, we‘ll keep you posted.