by means of this
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It was by means of this fuzzy botany that, 20 years ago, the frozen-foods lobby was first granted an exemption in the USDA’s school-lunch regulations when it came to tomato paste.
From Slate • Nov. 19, 2011
And so, by means of this short cut, Washington would often receive a reply to its telegraphic request the same day it was dispatched.
From Time Magazine Archive
They were specifically forbidden to exchange their own surplus power by means of this connection.
From Time Magazine Archive
All the so-called occult phenomena of mesmerism, trance, clairvoyance, mind reading, dreams, visions, thought transference, etc., are correlated to and explained by means of this psychic ether.
From Studies in the Out-Lying Fields of Psychic Science by Tuttle, Hudson
It is the one most often heard when Ortrud and Frederick do their evil plotting, for it is by means of this interdiction of Lohengrin's that they eventually succeed in accomplishing Elsa's unhappiness.
From Stars of the Opera by Wagnalls, Mabel
