1 - Torture is the infliction of severe physical or psychological pain as a means of cruelty, intimidation, punishment, for the extraction of a confession or information or simply for the entertainment of the perpetrator.

2 - Language researchers have long relied on participants suffering from language disorders as a means to better understand how language develops in healthy people.

3 - Today, the West has perfected the technique of lending money to the Third World countries as a means of controlling them.

4 - As a means to handle the issue of waste management, a system has been developed in which polluters pay according to the waste they generate.

5 - Textbooks are viewed as a means of presenting established bodies of knowledge to students.