Sentences with phrase «as means of controlling»

The jars serve two purposes: to draw attention to the owner's prized treasures and, perhaps more importantly, to act as a means of controlling the displays.

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They often use bribery as a means of controlling their children.

When one partner threatens to leave as a means of controlling the other, the relationship is no longer balanced.

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Usually depicted as a treasure chest or a card pack, they basically function as a means of controlling the player's progress in the game and are almost always associated with some sort of in - game currency or in - app purchase, which can be bought to speed up the process.

The report calls for universities to play a more active role in the publishing of the scholarship of their members and recommends developing the capacity to publish online and increased collaboration as a means of controlling costs and the «flight» of publishing to the big publishers.

And, although I've just run out of hands, both law firms and their clients are looking to in - source some or all e-discovery services as a means of controlling costs (and sometimes quality also).

I think I'll suggest re-introduction of grey wolves here in Ferndale as a means of controlling the deer.

Benglis has long used media as a means of controlling her image and highlighting and challenging gender and power imbalances.

TM: In the keyboard paintings, I'm interested in touch as an expressive tool, as a means of controlling sound.

Both a new WarioWare and the latest from Platinum Games (Bayonetta, MadWorld) are coming to the Wii U. Game and Wario will support up to five players across a selection of Gamepad heavy mini-games, including using the tablet as a means of controlling a skier and a camera taking photographs of hidden criminals.

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Sterilisation as a means of controlling the community cat population has been carried out by members of the public using their own resources, with support from the Cat Welfare Society's reimbursement scheme and the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animal's sterilisation voucher scheme for the past 7 years.

Ideally the operation of the program is legalized and codified by the adoption of a local ordinance to regulate the circumstance and procedures under which the cats are humanely trapped and returned as a means of controlling the community cat population and a compassionate alternative to putting healthy animals to death.

Today, DC Animal Control Code § 8 - 1802 directs the city's animal control agency, the Washington Humane Society (WHS), to promote both reducing euthanasia of healthy, adoptable animals as well as «The utilization of trap, spay or neuter, and return practices as a means of controlling the feral cat population; provided, that all efforts shall be made to adopt out a trapped, tamable kitten.»

As another means of controlling quality, they developed all of their own unique product formulas.

Hot lasers are often used in surgery to cut and burn tissue as a means of controlling blood flow.

These hunting dogs were bred by the indigenous people of Malaysia as a means of controlling vermin like rats and snakes.

Teaching a student how to breath intentionally as a means of controlling emotions is one of the gifts I impart.

Suffice it to say that the state (nicely embodied here by Donald Sutherland), as a means of controlling the masses, annually sets a gaggle of young people against one another in a fight to the death while broadcasting the whole nightmarish ordeal live.

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I always just think of exercise as something that makes me feel healthy and happy, not as a means of controlling my weight.

The new work explores particle shape as a means of controlling the directionality of these interactions to achieve long - range order in large - scale assemblies and clusters.

The shared service plans had been pushed by Gov. Andrew Cuomo as a means of controlling the local property tax burden.

The cap is one of the top economic achievements for Gov. Andrew Cuomo's first term and this year he plans to once again pursue local government consolidations as a means of controlling spending on the municipal level.

But he also said he still favors his original proposal as a means of controlling the highest property taxes in country.

The foundation for both of these methods of childbirth is using the breath as a means of controlling pain.

My theory is that breasts have become so fetishized (as means of controlling women and our bodies) that when people see breastfeeding they see it as a sexual act.

The covenant idea, however, also required a clear doctrine of sin as a means of controlling the poorer segments of society.

Religion and governments have kept people uneducated, or at least in the dark about the outside world, as a means of controlling them throughout history.

My observation reflects my history with an abusive church where public displays of spirituality were often used as a means of control and as such my comment was perfectly valid.

Repressive regimes often ally themselves with a particular religion as a means of control, and consequently encourage the punishment of those who won't abide by the tenets of said religion.

I deplore the way parents use religion as a means of control and to threaten children with punishment and convince them that they are bad.

And I object to anyone trying to claim such and use it as a means of control over others.

I am not religous but spiritual, I think religion has been used as a means of control.

I have come belatedly to see, in my own case, that my hermeneutical passion is largely propelled by the fact that my father was a pastor who was economically abused by the church he served, abused as a means of control.

Christine, are you sure you are not confusing a normal feeling of conscience induced guilt (a good thing normally) with the abusive process of using shame as a means of control?

Religion is used merely as a means of control to subdue masses.

They were raised with spanking and other punishment - based parenting methods as a means of control and «turned out okay» so they default to their own parents» choices without researching alternatives to spanking or considering whether «okay» could be improved upon.

They were raised with spanking as a means of control and «turned out okay» so they default to their own parents» parenting choices without researching alternatives to spanking or considering whether «okay» could be improved upon.

Do you see it as a means of control and of gaining power?

As a reader, I learned about the use of religion as a means of control over the people... at times, it reminded me of the current times, when we are becoming less tolerant of others who are not exactly like us.

Abusers often injure these innocent animals as a means of control.

In contrast to this lineage, she does not paint the other as a means of control or ownership, but attempts to place a mark on her own style.

As intimate - partner violence (IPV) generally occurs within a pattern of power and control, people who are motivated to control their partners are especially apt to use violence as a means of control, regardless of the batterer's gender (Archer, 2013).

Not exact matches

Dauman's appointment as chairman means he now has an unprecedented amount of control over the fate of Viacom.

You have total control and retain all profit — and you pay all of the expenses of employees and equipment, which means higher startup as well as higher operating costs.

As the study points out, this means that brands can easily lose control of the available information about their products as consumers turn to third - party sources to determine how products were madAs the study points out, this means that brands can easily lose control of the available information about their products as consumers turn to third - party sources to determine how products were madas consumers turn to third - party sources to determine how products were made.

As the economist Josiah Stamp recounted of another power trying to control a vast territory through oppressive means, «the Government [of British India] are very keen on amassing statistics — they collect them, add them, raise them to the nth power, take the cube root and prepare wonderful diagrams.