Sentences with phrase «means to an end»
Means to an End is the eighth studio album by American band Biohazard. (Wikipedia) (See all definitions)
It's fascinating to note that Connor, while a pretty talented lyricist and singer, doesn't really seem to be in love with the music except as a means to an end... a way to get the girl.
MOVIES & TV
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It is a means to an end — that end being academic success for all students - not an end unto itself.
EDUCATION
The original hand-made work is like a photographic negative, which exists only as a means to an end — the photographic print.
ART
A longtime veteran of many of L.A.'s underground creative communities, Mabson started making images as more of a means to an end than anything else — he needed flyers for shows he was setting up.
ART
It is a means to an end, and honest science has nothing to do with it.
ENVIRONMENT
Is your career fueling your passions, or is it a means to an end?
HEALTH & FITNESS
Though mobility is the desired outcome, portability of grants and loans - although not a panacea — should be seen as a means to that end.
SCIENCE
The latter oozed with foreboding atmosphere, while the former feels like a means to an end.
GAMING
For Canada, the TPP can be both an end in itself — trade liberalization and job growth — and a means to an end, re-establishing its economic and political credentials in the region.
BUSINESS
Common assessments are a means to an end; they are not the end.
EDUCATION
And if those improvements came about via technology, that would be the means to the end.
LAW
Decentralization should always be a means to an end, not the end itself.
TECHNOLOGY
Yet, over the past several years, I have seen sports in many of our youth become a means to ends rather than a means in and of itself.
SPORTS
Using Ryan or Sullivan as the benchmark for measuring «success» suggests that the singular goal of self-publishing is to become one of the «lucky few» who eventually get picked up by traditional houses; in other words, it reinforces the idea that self-publishing is merely the means to an end.
BOOKS
In this way, the system was more of a means to an end rather than a technological competitor.
GAMING
Two decades after the fall of the Soviet Union in 1991, modernization is the watchword in Russia — with science as a vital means to that end.
SCIENCE
And the risk is that if it stops being an effective means to that end, then Facebook will lose interest in promoting it.
BUSINESS
Further, if the folk I was mowing down were actually just awful people and not controlled by drugs, which seems like a cheap means to an end.
GAMING
The key is to regard technology as the means to the end you'd like to achieve, rather than an end in itself.
EDUCATION
This «wrath» can not be the end, it is a means to an end.
RELIGION
Cuomo only talking about the cap, and not simultaneously emphasizing that it is a phase 1, a means to the end of mandate relief which is phase 2, creates the impression he intends to declare political victory after the job is only half done by passage of a cap.
POLITICS
P.S. — You know, creative real estate investing is just a means to an end.
REAL_ESTATE
That said, I do see mastery as something that can be a means to another end.
ART
Julia represents The System and she sees Tsanko, representing The People, as simply a means to an end.
MOVIES & TV
Dating services, bloggers and matchmaking agencies will tell you that Russian and Ukrainian ladies enjoy this also, but see it more as a means to an end in helping them find a quality spouse.
DATING
While we're constantly championing social media as a means to an end, namely business, don't forget that it is also a concept rooted in the idea of community.
LAW
I don't view research as a means to an end (i.e., tenure); I work hard because I enjoy the routine, moment-to-moment challenges of every workday.
SCIENCE
The book does a good job of outlining that online dating is a means to an end: basically, it's a way for you to actually meet people.
DATING
CCSS was not an end but a means to an end?
EDUCATION
Usually in these types of fixtures, where two struggling teams meet both eyeing up each other as a means to an end − and in this case a means to their dire streaks, the onus will fall on the home side.
SPORTS
«The resolution of native title claims is a means to an end, rather than an end to a means.
RELATIONSHIPS
TW I suppose landscape is a means to an end.
ART
Well, one of the anonymous sources in the article gives a small hint, saying that «more hardware products would be a means to an end and that Amazon wants to make more devices for consumers that would enable simple purchasing of Amazon content including its digital books, music and movie rentals and purchases.»
BOOKS
Just remember that it's a means to an end.
REAL_ESTATE
Most of the time, people don't have the view that a credit rating is a means to an end, whereas if the end is you want to qualify for a mortgage eventually, well you need the down payment and gee if you're in debt, you're not going to be able to save that down payment because you're creditors are going to have a claim on any savings that you make.
MONEY
Conflict is a process, a means to an end.
RELIGION
As a result, many of them aren't so much an end in themselves as a means to an end — for they include such boring targets as raising awareness of biodiversity values, integrating those values into development plans, and eliminating perverse incentives to destroy habitat.
ENVIRONMENT
For the artists in the show, paint is a means to an end, not the end.
ART
For example, periodic, pop-quiz-style research simulations might help students to see that they don't know what they don't know about legal research.54 Either way, they need to understand that running searches is a means to an end.
LAW
We spend more time working than doing anything else — more time than with our loved ones and more time than sleeping — but, for most people, work is still just a means to an end.
JOBS
Social media is merely a means to an end.
POLITICS
Trustworthiness plays an especially important role in this project because the acts that are recognized must be authentic and well meaning, not exclusively the means to an end.
EDUCATION
Antiquated sexual mores and the increases in women's rights have produced a different concept of sex a means to an end in young women.
DATING
If social justice is approached as a means to an end, it runs a very high risk of doing more harm than good.
RELIGION
Whatever the reason, these «reactive» co-sleeping families have turned to co-sleeping as a means to an end, and it has not provided them the sleep that they desire.
PARENTING
I meant no ill respect with my choice of words, but it suggested to Teri that she was a means to an end, that I was «above» her.
BUSINESS
The cause — the end of slavery — is unquestionably righteous; the means to that end — Lincoln covertly sending the founder of the Republican Party to test the waters of brokering a peace deal with the Confederacy and unofficially employing shady surrogates to offer patronage jobs to House Democrats simply waiting for their Congressional tenures to end — are more questionable.
MOVIES & TV
Dividends are a means to an end; they don't do anything magical all by themselves.
MONEY
They were simply a means to an end, or so he says.
MOVIES & TV
The first date isn't just an opportunity to get to know someone offline, it's become a means to an end... and it's unattractive.
DATING