Sentences with phrase «functions as an end»

Sequels that overtly function as the end of a franchise or series usually have added poignancy.

It looks and functions as an end table to blend in with any home's décor.

A ceramic garden stool can function as an end table or a spot to rest appetizers during an outdoor gathering.

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To that end, she wants the L.A. rep to handle client relations primarily, while the New York office maintains control over functions such as cold - calling, research, and writing press releases.

To this end, clever researchers are continuously at work figuring out what sets the most joyful and high functioning of us apart, as well as digging to discover hacks, tricks and daily rituals that can make the already pretty happy into the genuinely self - realized.

The function to end an options trade early is referred to as the «option buyback» or the «early closure» feature.

Ross: But the way you're describing it, it ends up functioning [as] an escape hatch.

Last spring, as her strength dwindled, and her ability to function on her own became less predictable, the inexorable end of summer portended the dread awareness that this time my return to full - time teaching would require engaging full time care by strangers in my absence.

Faith does not diminish the necessity for the analogia entis, but neither does the beatific vision, which, even though it is the endpoint «intrinsic to the spiritual life,» still functions as «a defining end as far beyond every proportion as God in Himself is beyond the creation.»

In this context he defines the sin of contraception as to «subordinate the primary purpose potential of the sexual function and organs to secondary purposes of the sexual act, this subordinationunderstood of a physical ordering of nature»; «the primary end intrinsic to the physical nature of the act [may not be] subordinated to other purposes».

The description of Catholic just war teaching as beginning with a presumption against war and ending with criteria whose function is to say when, if ever, that presumption can be overridden is faithful to neither of these Catholic traditions, that of the religious life or that of just war.

For Kant, this theory did not imply the end of an epistemological objectivity; on the contrary, it functioned as its guarantee.

In the first case, when we have pastors who are not teachers, but are just care providers, we end up with Christians who feel cared for, but who don't know much, and so can not properly live or function as a follower of Jesus.

In these circumstances it made sense to many to say that a human being actually dies when brain activity ends, because only that activity makes possible the body's ability to function as an integrated whole.

In Process and Reality the categoreal obligations perform the function of axioms expressing the necessary conditions for which actual occasions must obtain in order to achieve a fully determinate end as a unit of feeling.

«It is only because human beings have an end toward which they are directed by reason of their specific nature,» he writes, «that practices, traditions, and the like are able to function as they do.»

Still the healthy functioning of the whole body is in a sense a goal that a physician will have in view as he pursues the proximate end of improving circulation.

In addition, our annual Christmas Party has been rebranded as an «End of Year Function», not because of a secularization of our company, but because the tiny Muslim minority threatened to boycott the event if it continued being referred to as a Christmas Party.

Whatever would constitute removal of blockages to functioning and, as necessary, even reconstruction of personality itself needs to be understood in the light of this larger end: equipping the saints for their ministry.

Because creation ostensibly ended with the biblical era, we who follow are not considered a part of the ongoing creative process, but are to function as the custodians of religious dogma and ritual, oblivious of Christ's words, «You have a fine way of rejecting the commandments of God, in order to keep your tradition!»

The persuasiveness of religious programs toward change appear to be greatest when they are viewed by a person who is in a state of attitude imbalance or transition and seeking new forms of gratification for his or her needs; when they are viewed by a person for whom religious faith has always been a viable, if not vital, option; when the options being presented are seen as realistic and leading to a desirable end; when opportunity for demonstration exists in proximate distance to the viewing situation; and when the attitude or behavior is not central to the individual's self - concept and ego - functioning.

In the satisfaction of an actual occasion the process of becoming which can be described as the transition from indeterminateness to determinateness comes to an end, and with it the subjective immediacy of the occasion perishes.4 With this satisfaction the objective immortality begins, namely, the functioning in respect to other processes of becoming.

Our holy huddle ends up serving as a bomb shelter whose primary function is to protect the occupants.»

and there we also argued, following Haenchen, that 9.1 serves a distinct function as the climactic promise bringing to an end the pericope 8.27 - 9.1.

Cook as per recipe and stir the cooked black beans at the end, after releasing pressure, heating them up on the sauté function.

Previously, Bour restructured the food and beverage program at Loews Coronado Bay, opening two new dining outlets in addition to creating the market and juice therapy bar as well as providing a similar program for two high - end yachts contracted by the hotel for function space.

Having Giroud in your team is like having dial up internet in 2015 (my apologies to anyone who still has, but it gets better as soon as you upgrade) and in case you're wondering how the analogy links to what I was saying overall in terms of ambition its simple, much like dial - up, Giroud functions at a limited capacity if you need to send an email its good (Score a goal), wanting to stream a movie is a stretch to far (Giroud doesn't win titles) and if, at the end of the day, showing ambition is showing an intent of doing better than before, taking risks and learning from your mistakes, and how not to repeat them again.

So even though the end result is that you want your child to function in society as an adult some day, that doesn't mean that you treat every child the same way.

As for the «threat to the functioning of democracy», we can all imagine how this government would approach a new Brian Haw, who set up camp outside parliament for years on end in protest at our foreign policy.

The National Identification Scheme will be working by the end of the year as promised, and the digital address system will be functioning.

We are recommending, without hesitation or equivocation, permanently ending the use of Rikers Island as a jail facility in any form or function,» reads the 146 - page report.

«The main function of cartilage is to seal the bone ends in a joint and absorb pressure on the bones during weight - bearing movement such as walking.

This function has the same form over a long range as the fractional extension versus force applied at the ends of a worm - like chain.

These varying combinations lead to the generation of slightly different proteins known as isoforms, which can end up functioning differently from each other.

The end may already be nigh for the lander — after bouncing on the surface, the craft appears to have settled in the shadow of a wall of material, preventing it from receiving enough sunlight to its solar cells to function for more than a few days — but ESA counts the mission as a major success.

In the end success was secured by the fact that the stone - dead galaxy was positioned behind a foreground cluster of other galaxies — a cluster which functioned as a «natural lens» by amplifying as well as enlarging the image of MACS2129 - 1.

Osaka University scientists found that some potential γ — secretase inhibitors such as semagacestat, which have been used in large clinical trials that ended in failure, do not function as true inhibitors as originally expected, but rather cause accumulation of toxic intraneuronal Aβ.

This continuous reduction of telomere length functions as a «molecular clock» that counts down to the end of cell growth.

Dr. Butler - Dawson and her team are focusing future research on delving deeper into understanding the factors that contribute to declining kidney function, such as why workers who live closer to the sugarcane field are more likely to have impaired kidney function at the end of the harvest season.

Their end goal is to identify specific populations of neurons in the fruit fly brain that are necessary for emotion primitives — and whether these functions are conserved in higher organisms, such as mice or even humans.

To this end, they observe various facets of biodiversity, such as the size of populations, the characteristics of species or the functioning of ecosystems and analyse how they change.

Researchers have already constructed functioning viral and bacterial genomes, and the yeast genome project, known as Sc2.0, aims to have all 16 chromosomes — roughly 10 million base pairs — assembled by the end of next year.

Many of our brain's executive functions become impaired as we get older, but this didn't turn out to be the case for sensing the unexpected ending.

«In the end, we get a synthetic molecule that has the same size, shape, and function as hemoglobin.

At the end of the four weeks, the researchers tested all participants» episodic memory using the Cambridge Neuropsychological Test Automated Battery (CANTAB) PAL, as well as their level of enjoyment and motivation, and their score on the Global Assessment of Functioning (GAF) scale, which doctors use to rate the social, occupational, and psychological functioningFunctioning (GAF) scale, which doctors use to rate the social, occupational, and psychological functioningfunctioning of adults.

Matthew Jones: Yeah, so I was very pleased to see Hooke here and he functions very effectively, anachronistically, as you indicated at the end of the play.

The end result was a parameter and quantitative model that describes domain mixing as a function of temperature and that can be used to evaluate different mixtures.

When microscopic living items such as individual cells or bacterium are placed on its free end, even their regular metabolic functions will cause the cantilever to vibrate.

Early studies of chironomids, a group of mosquito - like midges, found that ultraviolet light or RNAse targeted toward the front portion of embryos led to double - abdomen formation (two tail ends and no head), which suggested that localized RNA in the anterior egg might function as head determinant.

Artificial lungs for acute respiratory insufficiency but also for end - stage lung diseases, either for the recovery of lung function or as a bridge to lung transplantation.