by any means

Example Sentences

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It’s not enough by any means, and it’s unclear how much it’s helping in the grand scheme.

From Salon

"A local government's tabling or rejecting of such a measure doesn't by any means mean the initiative is dead," he told the BBC.

From BBC

“It’s a strong company, and I don’t think it’s going to fail by any means, but I don’t think the stock price is going to continue to grow the way it has.”

From The Wall Street Journal

Sanborn, explaining his communication with the men, wrote in a public letter: "I was trying to save K4 from disclosure by any means possible. I had succeeded for 35 years after all."

From Barron's

Dreiser “is not himself by any means a great writer,” Woolf concluded, “but he may be the stuff from which, in another hundred years or so, great writers will be born.”

From The Wall Street Journal