Sentences with phrase «as a means to an end in»

I see the point you're making — it's possible to view someone, or some organization, strictly as a means to an end in a way that overlooks their inherent beauty.

Brian Tamanaha cited Morris Cohen in his book, Law as a Means to an End in his chapter on post-modernity and judicial objectivity,

Not exact matches

This essentially means using an algorithm to scramble a piece of data, such as a name, in a way that means no one can unscramble it — but if another piece of data is run through the same algorithm and you end up with the same garbled code, then the two pieces of original data must match.

There was a pause on the other end of the line, and [the White House] voice repeated, «It would really be in the best interest if you meant to give the ring as a present.»»

The main reason for this is that the euro is merely a means to a much more coveted end — political union, as Germany's Finance Minister glibly admitted in a 2011 interview with Welt am Sontag:

In no way did I mean to come across mean, but chose to end the show as the people in the front row would not listen,» he wrotIn no way did I mean to come across mean, but chose to end the show as the people in the front row would not listen,» he wrotin the front row would not listen,» he wrote.

«If Trump were a con artist, he would be interested in politics only as a means to some other end,» Konnikova writes in The New Yorker.

The company will probably have to be removed as a co-defendant in the lawsuits where it is named, meaning that those currently suing may never see a payout from the production house (in general, bankruptcies effectively end lawsuits against firms going bust).

After heading to Asia for year - end client meetings, Levkovich wrote: «A 10 % total return in the next 13 - 14 months was perceived as being too conservative by many even as our year - end target is in line with mean and median top - down forecasts... Interestingly, several clients suggested that our outlook was far below the bullishness expressed by other even when our numbers are pretty much well within the Street's consensus.»

«What that means in short is that he understands the back - end workings of the business well enough that he could rebuild them himself (well, almost), and he also cold calls customers and says things to journalists aimed to warm consumers» hearts, such as: «On Valentine's Day in Chicago, we had every driver give every woman who got in the car a rose.

As I've said that the 10 yr bond crossed over 3.0 % means the US$ will be going to be weaker and weaker further and further by the 1st half of 2020 yr:) Also, the commodity price esp WTI will be going up to the level of 70 - 80 $ no later than 1st half of May (at the earliest), or no later than 2nd week of June, and then it will be in the range to the end of Trump Era:)

Yet, the current rules require that much of the cost be written off as an expense when it is incurred, meaning that early years in a product development tend to show very low profits, or in some cases even massive losses, with inflated profits toward the end.

yields will hit the highs on close end of the day... equity markets setting up to be slammed tomorrow maybe but today they have run over weak shorts in the face of rates... the federal reserve see's this and again will wonder if they are behind on hikes, strong data, major expansion in credit, lack of wage growth rising bond yields and ballooning debt... rates will go much higher and equities will have revelations as to what that means for valuations

The Aussie will decline to 72 US cents by year - end as restrained economic growth and inflation mean the Reserve Bank of Australia will take a «few years» to catch up with the Federal Reserve in raising borrowing costs, said Philip Moffitt, Asia - Pacific head of fixed income in Sydney at the firm, which oversees more than $ US1 trillion.

What this means in the end (as reflected in paragraph 118 and Exhibit I of the complaint) is that eight commercially available target - date funds either did not utilize alternative investments or failed to break them out in their reports on investment allocation.

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It means we will be able to use that money to invest in our priorities at home, such as housing, schools and the NHS, and it means the days of paying vast sums to the European Union every year are coming to an end.

With an end - date in sight, the wealthy can take advantage of various means to defer their income until the top tax rate returns to 14.7 per cent, thereby undermining the ability of the new tax to raise as much revenues as it should.

And by that we mean bring an end to double - digit price gains, bring about a steep correction in house prices to levels the city's lowly middle - class incomes can afford, bring about an end to staggering household debt levels and ultimately, bring about the end of housing as the economy's engine of growth?

There was a pause on the other end of the line, and the voice repeated, «It would really be in the best interest if you meant to give the ring as a present.»»

These are non-trivial continuing compliance obligations which are of fundamental relevance for cryptocurrencies — keeping in mind that a blockchain is traditionally the back - end of a fully automatic system designed to facilitate the instantaneous peer - to - peer transfer of digital property (meaning it's likely to be classed as «interstate commerce»).

But in our haste to use links as a means to an end, we can lose sight of the fact that the act of building links in many cases can carry benefits that have absolutely nothing to do with the Google - naut or any other search monster.

We are also gratified to report the Fund ended the quarter at a new all - time high NAV, meaning that as of September 30, all current Select shareholders have unrealized gains in their holdings.

For example, many salespeople are trying to meet their quotas at the end of the month, so coming in as the month closes can mean more incentives.

What does that mean for investors as stocks look set to end President - elect Trump's first month in office higher?

If NO man knows the date etc. as it says in scripture and their is always a whackadoo somewhere in the world saying the world will end tomorrow, would that mean that somebody is bound to know the day?

Second, the «dark ages» if by that you meant the post-Roman period in Europe, is a historicization that has found its way into popular culture — Originally the term characterized the bulk of the Middle Ages, or roughly the 6th to 12th centuries, as a period of intellectual darkness between extinguishing the «light of Rome» after the end of Late Antiquity, and the rise of the Italian Renaissance in the 14th century.

«It should be troubling — to «progressive» Catholics as well as others — that political operatives like John Podesta, who has been associated with Clinton campaigns and administrations for decades, admits that his organization set up (with funding from the Koch Brothers... I mean, George Soros) groups with the purpose of promoting a «revolution» — a «Catholic Spring» — «in which Catholics themselves demand the end of a middle ages dictatorship and the beginning of a little democracy and respect for gender equality in the Catholic church.»

Although you certainly need to show love in these situations, if those people die without knowing who they are as sinners and who God is as love, that love you're showing means nothing because they still end up in hell!

They also embraced revolutionism, a belief in revolution not just as a means to an end but for its own sake.

kendallpeak I'd say that about 90 % of parents end up keeping pets that their children have picked up as strays and fallen in love with, but that doesn't mean that keeping the animal was a sound choice, or will ultimately prove to be.

Kant's second form of the categorical imperative states that we should always treat persons as ends in themselves never merely as means to our ends.

The currencies of laboring fundaments revolving around systemic issuances of the civil and even the moral duties may one day dry out and we here in the USA will find the ends means of welfare capitalisms to be as a blockage within status quo partisanships giving rises to and toward just the opposite of long nurtured agendas within passive welfare issues long held holdings.

It is so obvious that: a) those held in slavery were human beings (a biological category); b) all humans are by nature persons (a philosophic category), that is, beings with inviolable worth that ought never be treated as means to an end; and c) the evil practice of slavery was not a private matter - the whole community is harmed because we are all communal beings by nature, in solidarity with those who are treated unjustly.

Indeed, one could argue, following the historian Christopher Shannon, that the agenda of modern cultural criticism, relentlessly intent as it has been upon «the destabilization of received social meanings,» has served only to further the social trends it deplores, including the reduction of an ever - widening range of human activities and relations to the status of commodities and instruments, rather than ends in themselves.

To this day, the greatest achievement of theological mediation in this direction is Bultmann's method of demythologizing, which assumes that any objective meaning of the gospel, any meaning that speaks of the world or reality as such, including the idea that the end of the world is at hand, belongs to the world of myth and not of gospel, and therein is consigned either to the premodern age of humanity or to the realm of the old Adam or «flesh» (sarxTo this day, the greatest achievement of theological mediation in this direction is Bultmann's method of demythologizing, which assumes that any objective meaning of the gospel, any meaning that speaks of the world or reality as such, including the idea that the end of the world is at hand, belongs to the world of myth and not of gospel, and therein is consigned either to the premodern age of humanity or to the realm of the old Adam or «flesh» (sarxto the world of myth and not of gospel, and therein is consigned either to the premodern age of humanity or to the realm of the old Adam or «flesh» (sarxto the premodern age of humanity or to the realm of the old Adam or «flesh» (sarxto the realm of the old Adam or «flesh» (sarx).

Where human holiness offers itself as a means to his ends, God is not content to send forth in greater intensity his creative influence, the child of his power: he himself comes down into his work to consolidate its unification.

What the early Christian believers and writers, for example Mark, tried to do was apply to him the highest conceivable categories, human and divine; but in the end these all proved inadequate, as the later church soon discovered; for Jesus means more, was more, and is more than any of these categories could convey.

With the definition of religion given, Marxism would have to be considered a religion, at least for those who do not use it as a means to some political or economic end, but who find «in the conception of the «dialectic of history» with its inevitability, its total relevance, its impersonal justice - making power, the object of supreme valuation and complete relevance to life....

If religious belief is attained when reason makes a «total response of the total being to what is apprehended as the ultimate reality,» such that in this act reason is reborn, then it follows that those who totally accept a given world - view as ultimate, whether it be theistic or non-theistic, naturalistic or supernaturalistic, immanentist or transcendentalist, as normative for their entire lives and as the supreme value in their hierarchy of values, and hence not taken as a means but as an end, belong to the religious dimension.

As an example, we have all sat through a missions conference where the emphasis of a sermon was on the meaning of the word «Go» in Matthew 28:19, but the only call to action at the end of the message was to give more money when the plate was passed.

Evangelical Christian translators of the New International Version of the Bible (the NIV) add in a footnote that the word translated as «tail» might possibly refer to «trunk,» which means the translators of the NIV can't seem to tell one end of this mythical beast from the other!

Only the notion of specifically Christian maturing and the special means appropriate to that end are finally of use to ministers as prophetic guides to maturing in the Christian life, since it is part of the confessing consciousness of the churches they lead that Christian faith and life are not the same as in any other religion.

In the area of knowledge, religion's weakness is not in questions it raises but in its attempt to give dogmatic answers: Beyond the myths about the origin, end and meaning of life, beyond the alienated notions of transcendence and death, there exists the concrete dialectic of finite and infinite, and this remains a living reality as long as we remain aware that it is not in the order of answer but in the order of questioIn the area of knowledge, religion's weakness is not in questions it raises but in its attempt to give dogmatic answers: Beyond the myths about the origin, end and meaning of life, beyond the alienated notions of transcendence and death, there exists the concrete dialectic of finite and infinite, and this remains a living reality as long as we remain aware that it is not in the order of answer but in the order of questioin questions it raises but in its attempt to give dogmatic answers: Beyond the myths about the origin, end and meaning of life, beyond the alienated notions of transcendence and death, there exists the concrete dialectic of finite and infinite, and this remains a living reality as long as we remain aware that it is not in the order of answer but in the order of questioin its attempt to give dogmatic answers: Beyond the myths about the origin, end and meaning of life, beyond the alienated notions of transcendence and death, there exists the concrete dialectic of finite and infinite, and this remains a living reality as long as we remain aware that it is not in the order of answer but in the order of questioin the order of answer but in the order of questioin the order of question.

But there are also people who want to fit in, but because we see this first connection as a means to an end, we cut them off from exploring other gifts, we institutionalize the process.

This understanding of the limited scope of scientific method had been generally accepted since Kant's Critique of Pure Reason (1781); but in nineteenth - century evolutionary parlance it took on the specific meaning that «all beginnings and endings are lost in mystery,» a phrase that became commonplace in the sciences and social sciences as a way of dismissing or circumventing probing questions that sought to assess the larger implications or consequences of scientific analysis.

Therefore, my listeners, in the carrying out of your occupation, which we have assumed to be something good and honorable, are the means without exception as important to you as the end?

But theology isn't the end, it's the means; as with a hard science in the laboratory, the purpose of gathering knowledge is to use it as a basis for further work and increased understanding.

The degree with which you honor me brings me to ask of God that at this point of life... I spend myself to the end in the service of humankind — as the most secure means of giving glory to our Lord.

However, that should never blind an individual as to the eventual outcome of this world — nothing means anything because in the end it all disappears.