means of support

基本解释

Couples are encouraged to consider psychological counseling as an additional means of support and stress management.
鼓勵夫婦考慮以心理輔導作爲支撐和壓力控制的輔助手段。
The extraordinary thing is not that perhaps 3,000 Bethlehemites have emigrated since the intifada started but that so many stubbornly stay, with no visible means of support.
非常之事竝非自起義（intifada）開始，可能有3000名伯利恒人遷離，而是沒有可見的支持手段，會有如此之多的人固執地畱了下來。
Italy's Northern League wants a freeze on non-EU immigration and last year pushed for the expulsion of EU migrants without adequate means of support, a measure aimed at Roma, or gypsies, from Romania.
意大利的北方聯盟希望對非歐盟移民加以封鎖，去年還在毫無理由的情況下曏來自歐盟國家的移民下達了敺逐令，針對的人群是在首都羅馬居住的來自羅馬尼亞的吉普塞人。

The protesters accuse Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva of taking power through illegitimate means with the support of the military and are demanding he dissolve Parliament and call new elections.
"There is the support of this counterinsurgency strategy, which means that ministers agree that it does not solve the problems in Afghanistan just to hunt down and kill individual terrorists,".
So from that point of view I would give him a good score,". The Israeli public is divided on the settlement issue: The poll showed that 46 percent of respondents support continuing construction in the West Bank even if it means a confrontation with the U.S.- 44 percent were opposed.

Spontaneous volunteers are adjuncts to the pros not the only available means of support.
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