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
They were specifically forbidden to exchange their own surplus power by means of this connection.
From Time Magazine Archive
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
I continued; 'confess, Demon! that my sister received her death by means of this goblet!'
From The Danes Sketched by Themselves. Vol. III (of 3) A Series of Popular Stories by the Best Danish Authors by Various
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
