Sentences with phrase «noble ends»

What if it serves noble ends?

As Pat Frank notes, there is NO FALSIFIABLE THEORY of CLIMATE... though a hot spot in the troposphere was predicted, though positive feedback in sync with CO2 increasing emissions was predicted, these are conveniently forgotten or homogenized because the dogma trumps observation, it is the «noble lie» necessary in cli - sci for «noble ends.»

That is to say science and its unholy matrimony with art, which together have had the unique power to dismember and dehumanise people like Sarah Baartman for their noble ends.

I learned the need to be forthright and honest, and to welcome the heat while not seeking the limelight; to be both bold and humble, and wary of experts who profess a lock on the answers; and to engage wholeheartedly in principled politics in the pursuit of noble ends.

to expand hope and broaden horizons, it is this Conservative party that will achieve those great and noble ends of fighting poverty, extending opportunity and, yes, repairing our broken society.»

But what if the story is more interested in the usurping of power, the annihilation of controlling people, and the end of deceit to achieve noble ends?

Moreover, violence is always used in the conviction that it is the only means adequate for attaining a noble end — social justice, the nation's welfare, elimination of criminals (for the political or social enemy is always considered a criminal), radical change of the economic structures.

In other words, do we use coercion to achieve even a noble end?

Now we turn our thoughts to a higher, nobler end.

We all agree in New York that we have accepted our egalitarian responsibility to do what we can to lift those up, towards that noble end, we provide a ladder and push them up that ladder in an effort to break that cycle.

«The Cassini operations team did an absolutely stellar job guiding the spacecraft to its noble end,» said Earl Maize, Cassini project manager at JPL.

TheStreet.com noted that Barnes & Noble ended a three - year e-book partnership with Microsoft Corp. and Adobe Systems Inc. in 2003 because of disappointing demand for a tablet device they produced.

To this noble end, the fine folks who have made the Pimsleur Method available on audio for many years, now offer goPimsleur.

Horner's employment with Barnes & Noble ended right after the deal with Author Solutions was concluded, but the contract between Nook Press Author Services and its users confirms her statement that Barnes & Noble plans to expand the range of services.

To that noble end, she has written the ultimate guide for the organizationally challenged and, unfortunately, that includes most of us.

Barnes & Noble ended up in a lawsuit with shareholders (including the Louisiana Municipal Police Employees Retirement System).

For me, and I believe for everyone at Best Friends, volunteers are much more than a means to a noble end: They are an inspiration.

An anti-nuclear Sierra Club leader later confessed to a historian, «I think playing dirty if you have a noble end is fine.»

Biasing research, even toward a noble end, can undercut efforts to build support and find «win - win» synergies.

We should divert the research funding that so many global warming alarmists have depended on towards nobler ends that address REAL threats, such as TRUE climate - change events, when such events really happen.

After her re-launch today some might ask if this wouldn't have been a nobler end.

Not exact matches

I took the time to learn more, and it took me only 90 seconds to end access to eight apps, including Hootsuite, MailChimp, Fiverr, Barnes & Noble, and Lootsie Rewards.

The dispute between Abu Dhabi - based investment fund Goldilocks Investment and commodity trader Noble Group shows no signs of ending soon, but one fund manager at Goldilocks said he hoped for a resolution.

The dispute between Abu Dhabi - based investment fund Goldilocks Investment and commodity trader Noble Group shows no signs of ending soon.

Independent bookstores, which were already threatened by big chains, like Borders and Barnes & Noble, knew they would end up having to compete with Amazon's wholesale prices and scale.

While ending buffering is certainly a noble goal, the challenge redoubles almost daily with the creation of new products that demand better and better delivery systems.

Barnes & Noble said it now expected to complete the separation of its Nook Media business at the end of August 2015.

Barnes & Noble Inc struck a deal to buy Microsoft Corp's stake in Nook Media LLC, ending a two - year partnership and clearing the way for the bookseller to spin off its loss - making e-reader and digital content division.

Beer aside, Constellation Brands is expanding its liquor and wine portfolio as well, adding bourbon brand High West, high - end tequila Casa Noble and Ruffino wine to its mix.

In the fourth quarter of fiscal 2016 ended in April, Barnes & Noble's comparable - store sales fell 0.8 % and the company expects those figures to rise only modestly in the current fiscal year.

It was once looked at as being noble and brave to decide when and how to end ones life.

What about the belief that since this world is temporary, it doesn't really matter — it's all ashes and dust, corrupt and lost so even the most noble acts are ultimately without merit — God will sort it out in the end...?

The poser to every sensitive member of the race is, in Shakespearean diction, «whether it is nobler in the mind to suffer the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune, or to take arms against a sea of troubles, and by opposing end them?».

Mathew's «Noble Lectures,» published under the title The Spiritual Interpretation of History, were an eloquent account of the march of human history toward this personal end.

Farsight the Eagle brings to Tirian Roonwit's last message: «I was with him in his last hour and he gave me this message to your Majesty: to remember that all worlds draw to an end and that noble death is a treasure which no one is too poor to buy.»

How any of this constitutes an advance in moral reasoning or moral sensibility over the classic just war understanding» that the use of armed force can be noble or wicked, just or unjust, depending on who is using it, toward what ends, and how» is unclear to me.

The human mind that abstracts from the realism and intuition of St. John, to theologise its own version of the Jesus of History as distinct from the Jesus of Faith, must always end up with a supreme Prophet who is less than the transcendent divine, who is not pre-existent to the Universe and Creation, and who at the very highest is «divine» only as a supreme emanation of a «holy and noble consciousness» at the root of being itself, and identified with Creation itself.

But in the end, the atmosphere of the Boston apprentice who made good in Philadelphia overcomes the noble stance of the Founding Father, and we remember his calculated prudence far better than his republican virtue.

It was an ending that brought tears to my own eyes as I watched Diana, both blessed and cursed with immortality, realize that she will mourn Trevor literally forever as she takes on the noble but never - ending task of rescuing mortals from their own appalling pickles.

Noble ask for prayer, and ended by saying, «I have no idea in what capacity He will use me in over the next several years; however, I do know that it will be immeasurably more than all I could ask for or imagine — because, in Christ, the best is ALWAYS yet to come.»

If in the ruins of Rome, St. Augustine dreamed of a civilisation that should be the City of God on earth, and penned, even while weighted with despair and expectation of the end of the world, the noble outline of the Christian order which inspired so much of mediaeval thought, how much more reason have we today, with so much greater resources, to expect for our civilisation a resurrection out of our decay.

To do so would seem to imply that the end of generating children is more noble than the end of a couple trying to maintain or deepen their love for one another.

That's a whimpery end to a noble revolution.

A tacit assumption is that PowerPoint computer presentations are merely a means to an end, a value - neutral tool used for innocent, perhaps even noble purposes: enlarging text for the hard of seeing; reducing the demand for and thus the production of printed materials; and bringing younger people, who spend much of their lives in front of screens — TV, computer, cell phone, PDA — into worship.

The course of history follows a tortured route: we fight injustice and seek noble goals, gain power to that end, somehow are corrupted by power and zeal, breed new injustices, and are challenged for our excesses and injustice.

I was particularly concerned by the end of her article, detecting there a somewhat naive reading of history, marked by a romanticized perspective wherein the past is always more glorious and more noble than the present.

Perhaps in a more unified Church my label, «one great theologian among many,» may prove in the end to be a cipher for that nobler title.

Distributists allege that their principles, when adopted and carried to their term, are ordered to the most noble of ends, which culminate in the very contemplation for which the human person is created.

That the best, the most noble, the wise, the old, the young, the lovely and beloved of our species often die ridiculous, hilarious, ignoble and untimely deaths while the worst of us sometimes get the best of ends unsettles some religious accounts.

Therefore as noble as the «end of discrimination» sounds and as appealing a bumper sticker as it makes, it is really a false argument.