It may be possible to use a black hole as a data storage and/or computing device, if a practical mechanism for extraction of contained information can be found.

VPAs are meant to act as a practical mechanism for identifying and excluding illegal timber from the EU market.

Salahudeen regularly asserts that "the practical mechanism to solve Kashmir dispute is by accepting the right to self-determination".

I need a simple, practical, universal mechanism to make procreation responsible.

The importance of our sending teams of experts over right away is that it provides a practical mechanism for following up on the assurances we were given.

(25) Things rarely reached the point of tyrannicide, however, and therefore practical mechanisms by which the incidence of princely power could be regulated were of much greater importance.

He also argued that there was "no practical mechanism consistent with the rules of the UN for dealing with Saddam Hussein".

"I just don't see this as a practical mechanism," he said.

It is also important to develop and implement a more effective system of practical mechanisms for cooperation.

By contrast, Britain's Conservatives - Europe's traditional nay-sayers - regard the Union purely as a practical mechanism for global trade and competitiveness.