Sentences with phrase «means to an end»

Accordingly, they have treated these other creatures only as means to their ends.

Maybe its not the best means to the end of finding the best relationship, but.

But, really, those stages are just means to an end as the puzzles are the main attraction in this type of game.

It is an affordable means to an end for those of us who believe we have something to say that others would enjoy reading.

In the end, I want to tell you honestly that sugar relationships are not meant to end in marriages at all.

Not only do we need them for various transactions, but often they are the only means to an end.

«However, in a climate of results I also think it is a necessary means to an end in many circumstances,» they explained.

Conflict is never, ever easy, but it can be an effective means to an end.

Since there is no rational question of better or worse desires, practical reason is exhausted by the instrumental question about means to the ends associated with self - preservation.

As you point out the replication of the previous analysis was a necessary means to an end.

They don't have the financial means to accomplish many of their goals, and thus they have to find creative means to an end.

It is as if such moments have no lasting significance, that they're mere means to an end.

Direct public investment in innovation is a faster means to this end than gradually making dirty energy sources expensive so that clean energy sources gradually become cost - competitive.

If the evangelical community is going to develop a political ethic, it must be one in which power is recognized and accepted as a legitimate means to the ends it seeks.

They'd usually use natural means to end their pregnancies, even if those means ended up killing them.

Their common ground was speed, an effortless means to their ends.

From the beginning, I've thought that fashion blogs have been a great means to that end.

One important means to this end is the electrically assisted power steering.

The dedicated means to this end is the new four - cylinder boxer.

If bunny is lifted from cage to exercise area, lifting becomes a positive means to an end.

We love ourselves more than we love our neighbors and hence repeatedly use our neighbors more as means to our ends than as ends in themselves.

But keep in mind that social media analytics are just means to an end: understanding your audience and the content that engages them.

We are not merely means to the end of God's enjoyment.

Her concern is, that in their desire for making converts, people on short - term missions often treat local people merely as means to an end rather than as ends in themselves.

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Means to this end include a lower roofline, an accordingly smaller greenhouse, faster windscreen and backlight angles, mildly flared fenders, more chrome, and bigger wheels shod with on - road - biased tires.

«Chile is used as an amulet, probably because of its well - known protective pharmacological properties, and in religious ceremonies, witchcraft, and conjuring; its fiery potency is considered a powerful means to any end,» observed Beatrice Roeder, author of Chicano Folk Medicine from Los Angeles, California.

TNR should be considered a humane means to an end, not a method of permanently maintaining community cat populations.

The three embark on a journey meant to end with Mustafa's return home — but first they must evade the authorities who fear that the truth in his words will incite rebellion.

As the end of the state legislative session in Albany gets closer, one issue that hasn't made many strides yet, for the second year in a row, is Gov. Andrew Cuomo's proposed ten - point Women's Equality Act, meant to end discrimination based on gender.

The three embark on a journey meant to end with Mustafa's return home — but first they must evade

Fight scenes do not get you as invested as they did in the Connery era, simply seeming like means to an end, when it comes to the action of the film.

Smart use of technology is a key means to this end.

Engineering is just one of many means to this end and that is why you should start to think like an entrepreneur.

Start with an effectual approach, which evaluates risk tolerance, and suggests a more affordable means to an end.

But is it possible to imagine any reform meant to end a tax advantage that wouldn't incite impressive howls of protest?

The launch is North Korea's first since it fired an intermediate - range missile over Japan on Sept. 15, and may have broken any efforts at diplomacy meant to end the North's nuclear ambitions.

The reason is that in an environment where events unfold quickly and unpredictably, a particular means to an end can suddenly become unfeasible; but if the end is well understood, then other means can be enlisted.

Foreclosures (and fraud), many reasoned, was a justifiable means to an end.

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

Abortion mean to end a life and I believe just the opposite.

By changing the priorities of classical Zionism, this «New Zionism» would make the reconstitution and reorganization of world Jewry its primary goal, and the security and development of the State of Israel the major means to that end.

Why would Plato, who as a writer obviously knows what he is doing, use such an artificial means to end his dialogue?

In its later forms it has been preoccupied with gaining wealth and employing competitive means to this end.

But most scholars of Mark today accept the likelihood that the original first - century author meant to end the narrative exactly — and abruptly — at chapter 16, verse 8.