Other bonding means between different metallic parts and pieces might employ brackets, clamps, exothermic bonds or welds to make effective connections.
For example, connections to foreign institutions, persons, or sources of funding are enough to bring criminal charges such as undermining national security against individuals.
The early statues were made of limestone, steatite and alabaster; later, when wide-ranging trade-connections had been established, the more costly exotic diorite was used.