Meanings of employed the means in English

They were dealt with as in war, and they naturally employed the means that were used against them.

Both parties employed the means which are familiar to unscrupulous statesmen; and neither had, or even pretended to have, any important end in view.

She knew this was the proper season for vindicating her own sovereignty, and accordingly employed the means which nature had put in her power.

They, skilled in all the arts of undermining a rival, employed the means that were thus put into their power with great diligence and effect.