means of support

基本解释

Couples are encouraged to consider psychological counseling as an additional means of support and stress management.
鼓励夫妇考虑以心理辅导作为支撑和压力控制的辅助手段。
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.
非常之事并非自起义（intifada）开始，可能有3000名伯利恒人迁离，而是没有可见的支持手段，会有如此之多的人固执地留了下来。
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.
意大利的北方联盟希望对非欧盟移民加以封锁，去年还在毫无理由的情况下向来自欧盟国家的移民下达了驱逐令，针对的人群是在首都罗马居住的来自罗马尼亚的吉普塞人。

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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