Sentences with phrase «as a means for»

In 2009, Industry Canada sued Pittsburgh - based U.S. Steel as a means for forcing that company to comply with undertakings it made while acquiring Hamilton - based Stelco.

In order to build up the private sector as a means for fighting government health care reform, AMA leaders designed the insurance company model.

SoundCloud differs from these services in that it was built as a means for aspiring musicians and entertainers to share their work — be it remixes, original music or podcasts.

To fight the proposed cap, Uber then aggressively marketed itself as a service for minorities and outer - borough residents (two groups taxis are notoriously bad at serving) and as a means for New Yorkers to find gainful employment.

Stover added new insights into the taxonomy, variation, and physiology of the fungus, helped describe its interaction with banana, characterized resistance and susceptibility in banana, studied the influence of edaphic factors on the pathogen, and introduced flood fallowing as a means for cleansing contaminated soil (a practice that was later shown to contribute to the spread of the fungus).

Receiving email networks and ISPs may query Sender Score and use the result as a means for assessing their email traffic and allowing or rejecting email.

Our Girls Learning Code program offer female - identified youth ages 3 - 12 hands - on experiences designed to inspire them to see technology in a whole new light — as a medium for self - expression, and as a means for changing the world.

Others may use signal services solely as their means for profiting from binary options trading.

The self - reversing nature of the Fed's repos and reverse repos, many of which are «overnight» rather than «term» agreements (that is, ones providing for repurchase a day after the original purchase) has caused the Fed to prefer them as a means for achieving temporary adjustments to the money stock, while treating outright security purchases as a way of providing for permanent monetary expansion, and especially for secular growth in the demand for Federal Reserve notes.

Since the crisis, however, the Fed has come to treat repos, and particularly overnight reverse repos (ON RRPs) with Money Market Mutual Funds and GSEs, as a means for securing long - term monetary control.

At present, the most common corporate use of virtual currencies is simply as a means for customers to pay.

-- Ernest Hemmingway The concept of buyer personas, as a means for understanding buyers, has been around now for over a decade.

I'm an Australian investor who focuses primarily on dividends as a means for evaluating investments.

For me, I use that company match as a mean for leverage.

Isn't this what so many of us don't like about people who use religious tradition as a means for explaining their behavior... they're not CONSISTENT?

There were also the Hussite Wars from 1419 to circa 1434 in which the Roman Catholic Church went to war against followers of Jan Hus, a priest, philosopher, and master at Charles University in Prague who had tried to reform the Church, condemning its sale of indulgences, which were the equivalent of a «get out of jail» card in the game of Monopoly in that the Church sold them as a means for believers to get out of Purgatory.

In order for us to reach that point we must recognize what sin is, repent of it and rely solely on the shed blood of Jesus Christ as the means for us to spend eternity with God.

However, invoking Christianity did prove effective as a means for inciting and manipulating people to commit those horrific atrocities, and that is the latent danger of religious furvor.

Religion itself is understood as a means for women's self - fulfillment and is constructed as such.

But, as Tillich points out, Luther did not appreciate sufficiently that love's strange work can be used by those in power as a means for keeping themselves in power.

But it is also a human word: the human beings who wrote it were also true authors.8 The scriptures therefore share to some extent in the nature of the incarnation: they use human things as the means for God to communicate with us humanly.

That eternal object is now relevant as a means for unifying divine prehending from that standpoint.

Whitehead seems to have been aware of this multiplicity within the initial aim in his second later account introducing hybrid physical prehension as a means for accounting for the derivation of initial aim (PR 245 - 247 / 375 - 377).

In his Stages on Life's Way (SLW), Kierkegaard speaks of irony as the means by which persons make the transition between aesthetic and ethical awareness, and humor as the means for making the transition between ethical and religious awareness.

Specialization is regarded as a means for increasing the individual's qualitative excellence of achievement and for making possible higher forms of cultural life through the organization of differentiated skills.

He treats it as a means for his sustenance or as an object for his contemplation.

Its justification is in the conviction that intercourse may rightly serve not only for procreation, but also independently as a means for husband and wife to express their love for each other.

To rely upon activities or patterns of behavior outside the daily work of the scientist as means for expressing a Christian response to God's call would be to abandon the conviction of Reformed theology that any useful work done soberly and well can be a valid means of serving God.

i simply want to know how the «newer» muslim phrophet (don't even know his name) taught his followers how to change the concept of violence as a means for jihad and / or self - defense into something that isn't violent (if that is what he did — i do not know except for this conversation).

Correspondingly, education is mainly regarded as a means for occupational competence.

For not only does it assign genuine value to nature by incorporating the characteristics of contingency, open - endedness, growth and decay in a general metaphysic, but it also assigns an important place to reason as a means for making explicit our understanding of the general structures which may be said to underlie the world as a whole.

In other words, nature's value lies not in and of itself, but only as the means for spirit coming to know itself.

This means that the philosopher's penchant for systematicity (which is characteristic of the rule of reason) must be understood, not as a means for advancing our understanding of the world as a whole, but rather as a self - generated illusion of mind as conditioned by the natural world.

These have little potential to help people (the only good seems to be as a means for people to be in touch with you — which could exist without that material) and has the potential to do much harm.

and by the way, those who consider themselves Caucasion as the meaning for white, have no idea that Caucasions are people who were from the mount Caucus which is in Armenia and has nothing to do with European white....

The utilitarianism of an individualistic period, which promised men that through faith they might gain the economic virtues and wealth, differs from the pragmatism of our social climate of opinion, in which religion is used as a means for gaining social order and prosperity; but they are both utilitarian and equally remote from the love of God for his own sake and of the individual or social neighbor in his relation to God.

Whitehead's writings demonstrate a strong concern with language both as the tool of philosophy and as the means for conveying human experience (PR 11).

Certainly in this context the family is always to be regarded as a means for the enhancing and not the restricting of human personality - in - relationship.

But now it began to function also as the means for overcoming the sense of isolation and separateness that civilization brought with it.

Babies made by reproductive technology must be treated as ends in themselves and not merely as means for fulfilling social or parental values.

«We therefore welcome the structure and integrity of the court process as a means for determining the truth with respect to these allegations.»

Mainline Protestant Timothy F. Sedgwick asserts that serving the poor communicates to them that «they are blessed because they have a privileged opportunity to know God,» while Roman Catholic Charles R. Strain warns that we must avoid «manipulating the poor as the means for the rest of us to experience divine grace.»

We need to remember that Germany was the most literate nation in the world when I Hitler took over and used an uncritical literacy as a means for maintaining his power.

Seems like the writer is confusing people viewing technology as an end goal for the bible, assimilating and / or eliminating unnecessary biological or interpersonal face to face interactions, with technology as a means for spreading the bible and even encouraging people to socialize.

In this interview, Amanda tells us about striving to practice meditation in action, leaning on real, whole foods for simplicity in her diet, skincare, and lifestyle, gratitude as a means for staying on track with her self - care, how she approaches raising her kids on plant - based whole foods, as well as exercise, stress, and much more.

Early on our journey, we adopted EPA's Food Recovery Hierarchy as a means for determining the highest and best use of organics byproducts.

Also, I'd like to apologize, as I meant for you to have this recipe yesterday.

The economic contribution will benefit «Cacao de Origen Emprendedores» («Cocoa beans of Entrepreneur Origin»), an educational project led by Di Giacobbe, which focuses on the cocoa bean and chocolate as a means for social change.

It looked like it means for them as much as it means for us fans and it was brilliant!

That is a silly way to look at things — just like the win over Houston in the Conference USA title game shouldn't be used as the sole reason for hiring somebody, a lackluster bowl performance shouldn't be used as means for questioning the hire — but that tends to be how people react.