ways and means

NOUN
  1. resources available to meet expenses (especially legislation for raising revenue for a government)
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How To Use ways and means In A Sentence

  • Last November governors of all 31 Mexican states sent a letter to the Ways and Means Committee of the Mexican House of Representatives to urge approval of legislation to remonetize silver.
  • This is also the case in selecting the ways and means to materialize them.
  • In the '86 case, those principles were that "people with equal incomes should pay equal taxes," and that "the market is a more efficient allocator of resources than the Finance or Ways and Means Committee. Tax-Overhaul Advocates Study Reagan-Era Reform
  • All strikers had to resort to some extent to borrowing, credit, casual work and other ways and means of managing.
  • There are ways and means of showing respect without such references, which only demean the person who makes use of the term.
  • Most of the focus, understandably enough, was on the panel's "admonishment" - its feeblest form of discipline - of Charlie Rangel, the beleaguered and soon-to-be-former chairman of the Ways and Means Committee. LJWorld.com stories: News
  • The debt was a heavy load on the part of the Government whose leaders were spending sleepless nights thinking about ways and means of overcoming the problem.
  • Each book has a secret history of ways and means. Henry Ward Beecher 
  • There are crafty ways and means of being thrifty at university. Times, Sunday Times
  • With computer technology, even people working on their own have the ways and means to produce professional-looking documents.
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