1.  The apparent means of releasing resources from private uses is to reduce private demand for them.

2.  All this was known, as was a lifestyle far beyond his apparent means.

3.  He was locked inside, with no apparent means of escape.

4.  Some of these organisms have no other apparent means for being dispersed than by debris or ships.

5.  To see Enron collapse must bother a lot of people who have lots of money without any apparent means of earning it.