try a variety of methods(ради некоей цели: The two mobsters tried a variety of unsuccessful methods to kill Castro, including poison and assassination by rifle, and Roselli even went out in a boat in the middle of the night from Florida to Cuba with some Cuban exiles who had been trained to overthrow the communist government. (coasttocoastam.com)ART Vancouver)
through various means(The administrative state's motives, Emond said, are about controlling the population, which it does through various means. (...) "We need, as American citizens, to understand who our enemy is," he stated. "If we don't take our country back, we are going to lose it."coasttocoastam.comART Vancouver)