In fact the 1964 DWR failure study implied that heavy compaction was a favored technique for earth dam construction.

And television itself was a hostage, as it often is, to events and to its own favored techniques for treating them.

A favored technique of McConville is to draw the line art on paper and color the characters in Adobe Photoshop after scanning.

Upside-down hanging, whipping and shocking with electrical wires attached to the toes and thumbs are reported to be among the favored techniques.

Brian Lamb makes a low-key, nonadversarial host: his favored technique is to quote a passage back at its promulgator and inquire, "What's that all about?"

A favored technique is the grisly accumulation of detail.

Father Aristide often used a favored technique of eliciting responses, coaxing louder and louder calls of "No to vengeance!"

The second program was less revolting than the first, but both succumbed to a favored tabloid technique.

Finger picking is the favored technique and guitarists frequently experiment with original tunings to obtain the desired range.

Using personalities to convey meaning has long been a favored technique of gifted writers.