This stone, I thought, had been shaped by artificial means.

I don't want to be kept alive by artificial means.

No such artificial means would bring sleep to his eyes.

Could that bed have been let down by some artificial means?

He's been dead to the outside world for 10 months and his family is being pressured to remove all artificial means of life support.

So artificial means have been developed, but they are very expensive.

His wife, he said, had told him several times in the past that she did not want to be kept alive by artificial means.

Q. Can a bay that has died be brought back through artificial means?

Thereafter she was in a position to develop herself further without artificial means.

As with many such complex proteins, they cannot be produced by artificial means.