Sentences with phrase «not as an end»

Deliberately missing from this list are such goods as money, which is merely instrumental to achieving more basic goods, and pleasure, which is to be sought not as an end in itself but as a benefit incidental to a rational end, in the way that sexual pleasure is achieved through marriage.

But with huge plant investments and the nightmare of retrenchment facing educational institutions, the temptation is to see students not as ends for which schools exist, but as means to the economic survival of the institutions themselves.

Postconservative evangelicals believe that doctrine matters — but not as an end in itself.

She presents Christ as a whole and holy self, who undergoes suffering not as an end but as the price of following the call of love and leading others there.

From another quite different point of view, too, the reconciliation which was accomplished by Humani Generis between a moderate theory of evolution and the teaching of faith, can only be regarded as a beginning and not as an end.

«36 These thoughts are central also to the new school of Pannenberg, in which Christ is seen not as ending time and history but actualizing a new order of history in which men participate and find their redemption.

We must, first of all, regard mystical experience and insight as a means, not as an end.

A culture having profound respect for human personality will pursue technology, not as an end in itself but as a means of serving the genuine needs of men.

Second, Luther's writings emphasized work done in service of others, not as an end unto itself.

As to the resemblance, this comes out manifestly on three points: (a) that God has, according to Christian, a «continuous though changing satisfaction,» which is comparable to my «growing satisfaction» (IWM 409); (b) that God does not lose his subjective immediacy, and that such a perishing is not categorically obliged; and (c) that the finality of God should be seen as telos and not as end.

In every case we are dealing with a living author who used grammar and syntax as a means, not as an end in itself.

It was a tactical approach that existed purely as a way of controlling the opposition and the game, not as a ends in itself.

Arguably, issues of democracy and self - government gain currency when they are tied to a compelling ideological vision, as happened with the recent independence referendum in Scotland that mobilised thousands of people, including a large a swathe of new voters, in support of political autonomy not as an end in itself, but to create a more just and equal society.

The trick, he says, is in seeing replication not as an end in itself but as a means for acquainting yourself with the methods used in a study, the original author's line of thinking, the complications he or she must have faced, and the solutions they devised to those problems.

«Bache actively promoted scientific research, not as an end in itself, but as an intellectual and cultural pursuit closely linked to social, economic and moral improvement... His particular career choice and the zeal with which he pursued that choice embodied values sanctioned by patrician - republican, Protestant culture, specifically the pervasive allegiance to progress that characterised this culture.»

But not as the ending stands.

Amazon is increasingly a company that, like Apple and perhaps the newly Google - ified Motorola, is good at understanding how to sell technology not as an end in itself, but in service of the user's experience.

Use NaNoWriMo not as an end in itself, but as another tool in your kit.

In a similar manner, death, oft the metaphor read into black and darkness, is treated by Como not as an end, but as a means.

This year, Bruguera plans to spend more time teaching immigrants art history — «not as an end, but as a means to something else,» she explains, using the imagery as a bridge to approach difficult subjects.

«I consider storytelling not as an end of a journey but as a continual process that ripples and affects our way of looking at the world,» the Nigerian - born, Antwerp - based artist, who was born in 1974, once told an interviewer.

Kiefer based his theme on human history and simultaneously engaged the notion that debris of history should be envisaged as a beginning and not as an end.

A path based on viewing technology, economics, and our cultural institutions and assumptions not as ends in themselves, but as tools toward a higher goal — a more fulfilling, sustainable, just and (this one is important!)

It is also best seen not as an end point but as one more step on a long and continuing journey to energy sources beyond fossil fuels.

Their goal is to change the perception of death, not as the end of life but as the beginning of a return path in the biological cycle of life.»

This is problematic because environmental assessment has always been and continues to be understood as a planning tool, not as an end in itself.

Not exact matches

For example, it is not uncommon for an independent worker such as a freelancer whose engagement period has ended to apply for unemployment insurance benefits with a state agency.

Hourglass Cosmetics isn't exactly a household name, but the high - end brand is starting to make its mark as a reliable, high - quality standard in Sephora, Nordstrom, or Bergdorf Goodman stores.

With semantics technology sales teams can easily access data relevant not only to the business and the industry their clients are working in, but also the in - between links like transport and delivery mechanics, as well as end - markets.

«If you're paying attention to what's on the TV screens, you're not paying attention to what's going into your mouth and you end up eating as much as a third more.»

They both begin with a lot of howling and blowing and, if you're not careful and lucky as well, you could end up losing the house.

And as the photos below attest, the thoughtful design didn't end there.

But the public good doesn't end up helping as many people is it should, since the residents who live just outside the city center — who would use the roads — aren't able to commute in.

Your job as the meeting's organizer doesn't stop when the meeting ends.

First, the fact that purchases will still be running at $ 30 billion a month in September implies that the program may not actually end until much later, as a transition from $ 30 billion to zero in one month doesn't gel with the ECB's desire for a smooth exit.

Still, Wilson is not calling for the end of the bull market — at least not right this instant — since, as he notes, this euphoric stage can last for a while.

Although World War I did not deliver on its promise to be the «war to end all wars,» its conclusion on November 11, 1918, has been celebrated around the globe as Armistice Day.

As Tony Robbins says, «Do what you did in the beginning of the relationship and there won't be an end.»

Amid speculation that her reign as top House Democrat could be coming to an end, Republican operatives were jumping with joy on Tuesday when Pelosi announced she is not going anywhere.

The bigger the company, the larger the paycheque you can command — and that doesn't count other compensation such as stock or performance bonuses, common at the higher end of the leadership ladder.

Northwest and Ethical Investments, a Toronto firm, may seek a proxy vote to prevent the co-CEOs from also serving as co-chairmen of the board of directors if RIM's board can't provide adequate justification for the governance structure by the end of January.

In the lending world, the players at the upper end of the market include the banks and monoline firms, such as First National Financial, which issue mortgages but do not take deposits.

As you may imagine and have probably experienced, the key messages of: keeping the customer happy; personally apologising etc. are likely long forgotten by the end of the performance review when Tom's salary increase expectations are exceeded (Unlikely), met (Possible) or not met (Highly likely) and Tom leaves the review demotivated and not carrying the key messages, or the meat in the sandwich, away with him.

Don't be fooled by the term «lower - end,» however, as even low - end gaming laptops with GPUs can have significantly more power than thinner laptops without GPUs.

It doesn't help when luminaries such as Stephen Hawking say that AI «could spell the end of the human race.»

As we climb the ladder, we end up in positions where not only do we succumb to that pressure, but we pressure others to do the same.

A big Shell energy project can require investing $ 10 billion on the front end — with the understanding that profits, assuming they materialize as planned, probably won't come for a decade or more.

The tech giant started trying to offload Boston Dynamics in 2016, as it wasn't giving Alphabet products that wouldn't end up on the battlefield.

Leaders who don't listen end up as losers and their companies become laggards.

Amidst the preference for social media and texting as a primary means of communication, it seems communication styles end up being more functional and less formal and often don't follow traditional etiquette rules.