Sentences with phrase «not as an end in»

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.

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

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.

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.»

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.

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!)

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

The social partners are needed because they can help meet other needs, not as an end in themselves.

The effective family therapist also uses tools as means to an end, not as ends in themselves.

The bricks - and - mortar will be important in the future to the degree that they foster these social relationships, not as ends in themselves.

Not exact matches

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

Thanks to their dismal performance as depots for tasks in progress, to - do lists end up being a warehouse of the uncompleted and a continuous source of worry that we're not accomplishing enough.

Comments: «The path to our 2013 year - end S&P 500 target of 1600 is not a straight line, and we remain somewhat cautious on US equities in the near term, as the US Fiscal Cliff and the growth outlook for Europe and China remain overhangs.

Basic resources, however, ended 0.55 percent down as a sector, not helped by a decline in some metal prices during later trade.

The situation's not quite as good as it was at the end of the previous decade, but it's as good as it's been in a long time.

Bankers, at the other end of the scale, are likely to offer no advice whatsoever as long as you make payments of principal and interest on time and are not in violation of any other terms of your loan.

True or not (and many advocates for women in tech spending their lives battling these stereotypes), in our unpolitically correct moments most of us would admit that we hold an image of programmers as shy but brilliant types who don't mind being holed away with their computers for hours or days on end.

At least one expert told Bloomberg that people may be reluctant to think about cereal as anything other than a breakfast food, at least not in numbers large enough to end the sales slump, which is expected to continue at least through 2020.

In my first «real job» after college, I experienced firsthand how management that doesn't value its employees ends up suffering from massive turnover and fails to be as successful as it could otherwise be.

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Ordinary investors don't usually get a chance to buy until trading begins in the open market (and as a result end up with results like those in Professor Ritter's findings).

But at the end of the day, many of them work for firms that have a vested interest in making as much money as possible for themselves and their shareholders — not for you, their client.

As Marketing-Schools.org explained, «In a prime example of low - end market disruption, Amazon found consumers who didn't want all the great features of the iPad, but wanted the basic features at a baseline price.»

If I wasted all that time on all that stuff I wouldn't have accomplished nearly as much in my career, I would never have ended up as successful as I have, and my life wouldn't have been so fulfilling.

Barring that, the Star paywall will likely act like paywalls before it: as a significant but not transformational shift, the kind of thing that makes a lot of noise, but in the end doesn't change very much at all.

As I recall the headline read, more or less, «Women Don't Negotiate Because They're Not Dumb,» and the author went on to cite research to make her point that when women do ask for more money, people tend to hate it, and «pushy» women end up paying mightily in terms of career progression and opportunities.

Even if Bezos didn't end the day as the richest man, he will likely take the crown from Gates more permanently in the coming days and weeks.

In its largest market, the United States, cost savings pushed up profits but volumes fell as the growth of higher - end beers failed to compensate did not make up for falling sales of Budweiser and Bud Light.

Throughout the call he returns to the issue of the border wall, pressuring Peña Nieto to publicly acquiesce to some sort of payment even as he admits that Mexico will not, in the end, fund his campaign promise.

Sources say it was those five pages, and not the deal itself, that proved pivotal Friday as last - ditch talks in the European Commission collapsed, with the holdout Belgian region of Wallonia refusing to end its blockade of the long - sought deal.

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It makes decisions harder and more stressful, and in the end you are not as productive or happy.

The horse - race quality of reporting in the monthly sales numbers will support this, as the market almost has to post year - over-year declines — sales running above 17 million for years on end isn't sustainable.

In the end, fame couldn't save little Robyn from the horror of her parents» marriage, as she had dreamed it might.

Our sales team felt so confident in our collective strength that it didn't matter what we shared, and in the end we needed each other as resources to win.

Fear: Making ends meet The life of an entrepreneur is not glamorous, as money can be hard to come by, particularly in the early stages.

He is quoted in the end credits of the film, Meet the Robinsons as saying, «Around here, however, we don't look backwards for very long.