Sentences with phrase «serves as a means to an end»

On the other hand, the fact that we can serve as means to ends can be a good thing if we do not overlook this.

While it's neat to see some of my favorite characters in recent memory come together in pretty HD - cutscenes, the story I was experiencing was paper thin, and only served as a means to an end so these characters could come together.

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Art can be as calamitous and vacant if it is just a means to a self - serving end.

Indeed, one could argue, following the historian Christopher Shannon, that the agenda of modern cultural criticism, relentlessly intent as it has been upon «the destabilization of received social meanings,» has served only to further the social trends it deplores, including the reduction of an ever - widening range of human activities and relations to the status of commodities and instruments, rather than ends in themselves.

The president of the Student Government Association serves as «master of ceremonies,» the president of the college makes comments, and there are two faculty and two student speakers, who are as likely to offer reflections on the year just ending as to address them - selves to questions of value and meaning.

Second, epistemologically speaking, Bergson means by «matter» the way in which the intellect approaches all things (whether vital or inert) as if they were simply the sums of their parts — parts that are subject to being disassembled and re-assembled in any order whatsoever to serve the abstract ends of the intellect itself or the purposes of the organism that intellect serves.

It means penetrating them in such a way as to be able to instruct the world concerning its purpose of serving human need, concerning its original foundation and the end toward which it moves.

When we consider our wealth and economic practices — even the means we employ to accomplish good ends — as peripheral to the kingdom, we are ignoring Jesus» warning that it is impossible to serve God and mammon.

BioPure Bravo Probiotic, Colostrum Suppositories serve as an innovative and efficient means to deliver a combination of beneficial, live probiotic strains, whole healthful colostrum, and healing emollients directly to the lower end of the intestinal tract

In the end I suppose Speed Highway's setting, with Sonic running from police on roads and through buildings, served as a better means to demonstrate his unavoidable haste.

As for the performance tasks meant to compliment (or serve as) the student growth or VAM measure, teachers were discouraged with this being so subjective, and susceptible to distortion because teachers «score their own students» performance tasks at both the beginning and end of the yeaAs for the performance tasks meant to compliment (or serve as) the student growth or VAM measure, teachers were discouraged with this being so subjective, and susceptible to distortion because teachers «score their own students» performance tasks at both the beginning and end of the yeaas) the student growth or VAM measure, teachers were discouraged with this being so subjective, and susceptible to distortion because teachers «score their own students» performance tasks at both the beginning and end of the year.

That could mean the technology will appear on a high - end luxury flagship, such as the Cadillac LTS sedan featured in our Sneak Preview issue that will serve as Cadillac's answer to the Mercedes S - Class.

Really, a car like this is first and foremost meant to serve as a boulevard cruiser, which brings us to the C300 at the other end of the spectrum.

While the end of September serves as a reminder to download any of the free titles from this month which you may have forgotten about, it also means a new selection of titles will soon be available for Xbox Live Gold members.

Instead of the abstract level design serving solely as the means to an end, Rayman 2's worlds are designed as believable, living areas that the player must work through.

Being somewhat limited in my freedom to be entertained as a kid, for many years of my life, gaming served as a diverse means of escape for me away from the trappings of a mostly mundane, repetitive life, at the end of the school day I would often think to myself «alright... so what are some of the good things that I have to look forward to when I get home...», one of the first things that I would do as soon as I got home after school was play FINAL FANTASY on PlayStation, I would eagerly walk home as quickly as I could just so that I could continue playing from the part where I had last left off the day before, as pathetic as this may come across, I can confidently say that many of the happiest moments that I have had in my life have been while being utterly enthralled by the developments in the games, I think that reminiscing about aspects of a video game with great fondness is a hallmark of an impactful form of entertainment, I would often be so «in the zone» while playing that anything aside from what was taking place on the screen would become completely null and void in my mind to the point where I forget that I was playing a video game, even though I did not live the events of the game, I can emphatise with them as if I had, that is the sort of impact that the emotional depth of the story, the characters, the music, the design and the overall world of the series have had on me, what appeals the most to me is that FINAL FANTASY allows us the luxury of divorcing ourselves of our current reality to assume that of a world of fantasy for a precious moment in time, which is a sentiment that makes me wish that our world as whole had a little more «FINAL FANTASY» within it so as to make us all want to wake up as soon as possible to enjoy another day

Donald Moffett is a New York — based artist known for working across artistic categories and media on carefully produced, thoughtfully considered, and visually stunning works that serve as means to often political or social ends.

But if the goal of climate policy is to serve as a «Trojan horse» to get at other issues, like sprawl and gridlock (among other causes), then there is a misalignment of ends and means, which often leads to ineffective or just bad policy.

Even ignoring the offensive work of the Heritage Foundation, ALEC, and other Koch front groups, the recent focus on Latino and Hispanic voter outreach is clearly a self - serving political tactic, where broadly - defined groups of people are used as a means to an end.

Term insurance is meant to serve as a safety net if you die prematurely, and most term policies reach the end of their «term» (rate guarantee period) before age 80.

Along with serving as a platform for end users to watch shows, Watch is also meant to help creators and publishers find an audience for their content, build a community, and earn money.The additional section would be the first standalone news product for national news in Watch.

The article describes the group formed by leading South Jersey family law attorneys, including Borger and Matez, to assist New Jersey families with the Collaborative Divorce (CD) option — meaning divorces that involve a team effort by specially trained lawyers, financial advisors and mental health experts serving as divorce coaches or child experts — all designed to end a marriage in a non-adversarial, dignified, and private way on terms that work for that particular family without going to court for a judge publicly to make those decisions for the people and their children.