Sentences with phrase «not as a means»

The government explains that lower corporate tax rates were intended to apply only to active business income and not as a means of maximizing personal savings.

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.

They are therefore to be thought of not as means of consumption but as means of their own production.

So Jeremiah's companions in disaster asked him to pray that «God may show us the way wherein we should walk, and the thing that we should do» (Jeremiah 42:3) With God conceived as infinitely wise and good, reasonable prayer must be conceived not as a means of forcing on God the bidding of man, but as a means of releasing through man the purpose of God.

This means that the philosopher's penchant for systematicity (which is characteristic of the rule of reason) must be understood, not as a means for advancing our understanding of the world as a whole, but rather as a self - generated illusion of mind as conditioned by the natural world.

Not as the means to an end, but as an end in itself.»

In such education scientific knowledge and engineering skill will be taught not as means of making good the claims of the autonomous human will against nature, but as resources for the informed pursuit of the good.

Use your faith as a guide in spiritual matters, but not as a means to explain the tangible, observeable, testable, wonderful physical world in which you find yourself now.

Since I can't see responses I had to make this correction only as a joke not as a mean and vicious troll.

«Balanced diet is learning to feed a child when they're hungry, not as a means of effecting behavior and pacifying,» said Besser.

«Bureaucracy generally gets caught in seeing the process as an end in itself not as a means to an end,» he said.

Dolly the sheep was cloned, in fact, with the intention of eventually using this procedure to create transgenic animals having useful properties, not as a means to make carbon copies of baseball legend Ted Williams or a favorite dead pet.

I always just think of exercise as something that makes me feel healthy and happy, not as a means of controlling my weight.

30 Day Shred Jillian Michael's is known for her «take no prisoners» approach on America's Biggest Loser, but she isn't as mean in her fitness DVD, the 30 Day Shred.

It's not as raunchy, it's definitely not as mean as most, and it just has an overall niceness to it.

Pelly will often say that Phyllis is not as mean as she looks.

He uses CGI as a tool and not as a means to an end, weaving an emotional yarn along with a solid action piece.

Nature turns mean, but not as mean as she could be in an R - rated movie, in this uneven wanna - be horror film.

With the increased authority provided to states under ESSA, states can now take advantage of this flexibility to build even better systems and not as a means to hide from accountability.

Further, standards for learning and performance and their accompanying assessments should serve as targets for inspiring and improving student learning, not as a means to sort and to rank students.

Not exact matches

If they are successful, this means that neural motes can not only monitor health, but actively serve as electroceutical therapies to treat brain disorders such as epilepsy.

If you can predict what your boss is going to do that means you don't have to spend as much energy managing that relationship, dealing with their meddling, and justifying your actions.

«It's meant to take a lot of the pain, effort and scariness of investing out as much as possible, especially for those who are not super sophisticated,» he says.

As the study points out, the cheapest cities to live in may have the lowest average of combined expenses, but that doesn't mean everything there is cheap, like transportation or groceries.

But Macron, at his first EU summit, said being an attractive destination for investment did not mean exposing Europe to what he termed «the disorder of globalisation», as he seeks to make good on a campaign pledge with a so - called protective Europe.

That doesn't mean you can auto post your blog to Facebook or your Facebook posts as tweets.

What Facebook means is that the algorithm chooses what to show you — as though the algorithm was some kind of omniscient entity, and not a thing programmed by flawed human beings.

You wish a leader would give the change meaning and purpose, to make you feel that you weren't acting alone but as part of a community.

«Just because you're terminating someone because they're not work authorized anymore doesn't mean you get out of your obligations as an employer,» says Siskind Susser's Greg Siskind.

If you build your nest egg only in tax - deferred accounts like a 401 (k) or IRA, you're going to pay a lot of taxes in retirement when you access these funds — meaning your retirement dollars may not go as far as you'd hoped.

But while the world's second - largest economy, which self - identified as a «Near - Arctic State» in its new white paper, may have it's own economic and foreign policy interests in mind, experts cautioned that doesn't mean a geopolitical standoff is coming.

Some of his current critics used to call him «Sunny Stephen,» and they didn't mean it as a compliment.

Slack's chatbot, meant to serve as an office assistant, lets you know its limitations when it doesn't understand something: «Sometimes I have an easier time with a few simple keywords.»

People who make decisions particularly well engage in what's known as probabilistic thinking, which means recognizing that most choices don't have binary outcomes.

Financial data is always at the back of the business plan, but that doesn't mean it's any less important than up - front material such as the business concept and the management team.

But just because founders won't need as much cash doesn't necessarily mean that investors will make less.

Just because something is expensive to produce doesn't mean it is perceived as valuable.

For example, downsizing in square footage doesn't always mean downsizing in price — a downtown condo can cost as much as a house in the suburbs.

Democratic Sen. Jeanne Shaheen and Republican Sen. James Risch say they've been told that the administration isn't considering what some describe as «bloody nose» approach — meaning a military attack intended to demonstrate U.S. resolve but not lead to war.

This in turn means that billions of dollars of «unnecessary and avoidable spending» takes place, as people are not following their healthcare plans.

Make sure that you're not seeing a lot of delayed or cancelled flights as that means your flight is likely to be affected to.

MoviePass described the new plan as a way of testing a new model, and said «this does not mean that our unlimited subscription will not be offered in the future.»

This means that product display pages and result listings are not as streamlined, elegant or as closely fit for a purpose as a category specific or brand website.

The library should contain as much of what you do not know as your financial means, mortgage rates, and the currently tight real - estate market allows you to put there.

But ICOs are unregulated in most countries, meaning investors don't have the protections that they enjoy with other assets such as stocks.

If the new person can't get along with the natives as part of an effective and collaborative team, then his or her book smarts don't mean squat.

... At this point we don't have a 100 percent solution as to what that means,» Callahan told Re / code.

That doesn't mean you can't keep your pedal pushed firmly to the metal as you drive full - throttle towards success... but it does mean you may want to change how you approach achieving all of your goals, even if just by tiny degrees.

Miners such as Vale, Rio Tinto, BHP Billiton and Fortescue typically don't hedge or fix prices for future sales because that means their earnings can be lower if prices increase.

This basic formula means that as an entrepreneur or business leader, you can't compromise on your principles when dealing with your staff, your customers, your suppliers, or anyone else connected with your business.