Sentences with phrase «being as the means to an end»

Using a human being as the means to an end feels wrong, even if the end has the positive consequence of saving lives.

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.

As a commercial diver, this was the end of my career and I really struggled to try and come to terms with what this meant.

He cited «expanding trade» and a «focus on jobs, growth and long - term prosperity» as two means to that end, which is hard to square with his government's convoluted positions on foreign investment.

It's not as high - end as a Yeti cooler, and it's not meant to be — Eddie Bauer gets the job done for less than $ 50 and looks pretty good doing it.

As it happens, the largest plaintiff among the dissenters, T. Rowe Price Group, inadvertently voted all its shares for the merger, though it meant to vote against, so it ended up being ineligible for the appraisal.

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.»»

This means large number of consumers will be trudging off to the discounters such as Walmart and Target as well as lower - end stores such as Dollar Tree and Family Dollar.

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:

You can argue about which is easier to use or more polished, but at the end of the day, iOS does not have as many features as Android and that means it should not be used as the «gold standard» that all apps are held to.

«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.

To ask it a slightly different way, the conventional wisdom for a long time was that Apple offered services primarily as a means to the end of selling deviceTo ask it a slightly different way, the conventional wisdom for a long time was that Apple offered services primarily as a means to the end of selling deviceto the end of selling devices.

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).

I mean, our government debt is almost as large as it was at the end of World War II, relative to GDP.

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.

But the most remarkable fact about SpaceX is that — right from the start, before the first rocket had lifted an inch off the ground — it was explicitly intended as the means to another, far more grandiose and idealistic end: colonizing Mars.

Respected Apple analyst Ming - Chi Kuo told the publication that the lack of demand will see the «end of life» for the iPhone X, meaning it will not be offered to customers as a lower - cost option when new iPhone models are released later this year.

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

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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.

Clearly, Conservatives are happy to deploy the federal spending power as a means to conservative ends.

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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.

It's not meant to be the end - all - be-all for your link building initiatives, but it can be used as a foundation for your own organizational structure.

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.»»

According to GDAX's official statement, a single and as yet unknown actor sold millions of dollars worth of ether across a range of positions from $ 317 down to $ 224, meaning that ether was effectively trading at the lower end of this range.

If you were to say there's something rather peculiar about chasing money as a means to an end, I could certainly see your point.

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»).

According to the EP, the amendments to the crypto regulation are meant to further address the risks associated to digital currencies, such as ending anonymity, and ensuring that digital funds aren't being used for money laundering purposes.

As SpaceX and Boeing race to begin test flights of their crew - rated vehicles by year - end 2018, all eyes are on the commercial launch providers ---- and what their success will mean for the American entrepreneurial space industry.

My desire to reach financial independence and to exit the workforce is as strong as ever, however, the means to the end has somewhat changed, and I want to illustrate those changes with a fresh look.

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.

Until the Parity multisig hack at the end of 2017, the DAO hack was the biggest Ethereum hack to date and the price of ETH collapsed as many wondered what this could mean for the stability of the coin.

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.

Loan consolidation is a good option if you're looking to lower your monthly payments, as consolidating gives you the option to extend the repayment term of your loan — but remember, extending your repayment term also means you could end up paying more interest over the life of the loan.

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?

The real debate, then, is not over whether or not torture happened, but over whether something evil can ever be done as a means to a good end.

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!

Should we rattle sabers as other religions, or should we seek a non-violent mean to end the suffering of our fellow beings around the globe?

On the contrary, St. Augustine teaches us, government is meant to deal with our temporal ends (e.g., health, safety, and morals, so far as they conduce to living peaceably together).

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.

That doesn't mean we won't, though the theory might end up being quite different from our current understanding (think of Newton's theory of gravity, very successful as an approximation but needing Einstein to look at things differently).

Art can be as calamitous and vacant if it is just a means to a self - serving end.

It is true that God calls us to love one another, but not as the means to an end, and not at the expense of loving God with all our strength, heart, soul, and mind.

It is one thing to be driven penitently to violence as the only possible means to end injustice.