Sentences with phrase «serves as a vehicle»

Still, while other companies like Richard Branson's Virgin Galactic and Jeff Bezos's Blue Origin are planning much of their business around space flights for the super wealthy, SpaceX's model is primarily to serve as a vehicle for scientific missions, satellite launches, and trips to the International Space Station.

The ritual served as a vehicle for grief, just as communion serves as a vehicle for memory and baptism as a vehicle for renewal.

Through his priestly role the minister brings familiar rituals and theological beliefs to serve as vehicles of trust.

The ecumenical movement has therefore in many ways come to serve as a vehicle for common reflection on the challenge of contemporary ethical issues.

The pit literally served as the vehicle for elevation in the life of this Biblical hero.

From Plato's Republic to the several visions of H. G. Wells, the Utopias have served as the vehicles for the expression of wisdom about life, social preachment, and sheer imaginative delight.

The Pope had given it his blessing, and it had become increasingly influential in the decades that followed, serving as a vehicle for lay Catholic participation in German party politics and for the protection of Catholic political and religious interests in German public life.

It serves as a vehicle for rationalizing and enforcing the status quo.

The tradition, especially the rituals of worship, serves as the vehicle through which individuals are introduced to and sustained in a corporate life of Christian faith.»

If we need some type of bodies to serve as vehicles of the spirit there, God will give us what we need.

A choir of dancers, or soloists, trained and rehearsed in a language of liturgical movement, gives form to symbols and expressions, and serves as a vehicle through which God's presence may be apprehended.

The Kumukahi Ukulele & Hula Festival serves as a vehicle for hālau and ukulele musicians to share their talents and obtain true Aloha and Lōkahi (unity), while immortalizing the hula styles of their respective hula lineage.

We all know that food is fun, and here, it serves as a vehicle to provide context to these women's complicated identities.

It can serve as a vehicle for their stuffed animals or dolls, a pull - along «tray» when they're playing restaurant or even as transportation for the child himself with you pulling it.

The chief function of the Community Board is to serve as a vehicle for resolving citizen complaints as it relates to city government and the residents of the community.

Public Authorities in some ways have controlled the growth in spending but they also continue to serve as vehicles for back door borrowing, according an ABO report.

After this point, the assemblies simply served as vehicles through which citizens would organize.

«The hard - earned pension savings of New Yorkers should never serve as a vehicle for corrupt, personal enrichment,» Manhattan U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara said in a statement, calling the alleged pay - for - play arrangement a «classic, quid - pro-quo bribery scheme.»

Non-profits such as the Fuller Road and Fort Schuyler management corporations have emerged as a focus in U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara's allegations that these groups served as vehicles for bid rigging and kickback schemes relating to large construction projects that are part of Cuomo's efforts to use the State University system as a platform for upstate economic development.

«The nanoparticles serve as vehicles that protect the drug from the harsh environment of the blood,» Lanza said.

They contain functional proteins and genetic materials and serve as a vehicle for communication between cells.

We see this study serving as a vehicle for personalized medicine and a model for researchers working with other populations.»

«How the Criminalization of Pregnancy Robs Women of Reproductive Autonomy» explores how laws previously understood to protect pregnant women from domestic violence, such as fetal protection laws, now serve as the vehicles for prosecuting pregnant women, particularly disadvantaged women of color.

The objectives of the Caribbean Division of the American Association for the Advancement of Science are to further the work of scientists, to facilitate cooperation among them, to foster scientific freedom and responsibility, to improve the effectiveness of science in the promotion of human welfare, to increase public understanding and appreciation of the importance and promise of the methods of science in human progress, and to serve as a vehicle for communication and cooperation among scientific societies within the territory of the Division.

Contrastingly, pollen is essential for the plants» reproduction, serving as a vehicle for gametes.

At Simmons Cancer Center, five complementary scientific programs serve as vehicles for discovery:

Cells also can serve as vehicles for genetic content, which the gene therapy industry is now investigating.

lactis to serve as a vehicle for delivering drugs.

And, yet, throughout the years, what we wear and carry with us has served as vehicles, reminders, and catalysts for those crucial things.

In essence, many ancient mantras serve as vehicles for the mind to cross over the material world and into enlightenment.

Animal foods have traditionally served as a vehicle to transmit this bacteria B - 12 to us.

In the blood, glutamine serves as a vehicle for ammonia, thereby, serving as a non-toxic carrier of a toxic compound

The problem with rice in most people's diets is twofold: it serves as a vehicle for processed fat and sugar; and overweight, insulin - resistant folks with damaged metabolisms can't handle the glucose load.

It's the safest sex you'll ever have and as Bonnie writes in her book, The Fine Art of Erotic Talk, «A telephone tryst can serve as a vehicle to keep your romantic feelings alive, to enhance intimacy, to build erotic anticipation, and to fuel your sexual fantasies.»

But to complain that nothing much happens here or ponder the film's curiously tame view of university life (Rodney Dangerfield would most definitely get no respect here) is to miss the point of the movie, which is to serve as a vehicle for McCarthy, spotlighting her warm, screwball spirit and irrepressible physical comedy.

Although the film moves at a rather slow pace and is unevenly edited, it nevertheless serves as a vehicle for Mr. Hawke who gives an extraordinary performance as the ill fated musician.

Steve Martin's role is pretty fantastic, and may serve as the vehicle which re-invigorates his career.

If anything, The Scorpion King serves as a vehicle for the WWF's The Rock.

The unforeseen story - line serves as a vehicle to restore Deanna's confidence and her own self worth, especially after being dumped by Dan.

The narrative is paper - thin, but it serves as a vehicle for getting you to the action.

And the villain is always one step ahead of the heroes and they're trying to catch up and there's sort of a chain reaction [that] leads to like an interconnected universe of characters being drawn in and that served as our vehicle into the story, into this film.

As Joe brings events closer to the point where Seligman found her, von Trier's script gives Joe long, philosophical speeches while Seligman serves as the vehicle for convenient straw man arguments von Trier is eager for Joe to knock down.

The bill is expected to serve as the vehicle for rebuilding the defunct system from scratch.

Filmmaking serves as a vehicle of transfer, a way for learning outcomes to be transferred from the filmmaking process to other aspects of life.

In his tribute to Freire following the latter's death in 1997, McLaren stated that Freire supported «a radical politics of historical struggle» and «acquired a mythic stature among progressive educators, social workers, and theologians» for «fomenting dedication to the ways that education can serve as a vehicle for... - a politics of liberation.»»

The moodle also serves as a vehicle to connect partnering districts for the Exploratory Enrichment COSER and houses Rockland BOCES forms used by Cultural Arts Coordinators in the cultural arts process.

In addition to initiating turnarounds in these schools, the Commissioner's Network is designed to serve as a vehicle for innovative initiatives, a platform for sharing effective practices, and a model for other schools and districts throughout the state.

She is dedicated to ensuring that schools serve as a vehicle for all students to find their purpose, voice, identity, and develop the cognitive and non-cognitive skills to self - actualize in order to uplift themselves, their family, and their communities now and forever.

It serves as a vehicle for communication for policymakers, school board members, school and district administrators, teachers, parents, researchers and university faculty across the United States.

Though educators are ever cognizant of the fact that technology alone is not the panacea that will solve the literacy struggles of students, a thoughtful integration of literacy instruction with new technologies such as wikis can serve as the vehicle to transport both teachers and their students of this Web 2.0 generation on their learning journeys in ways that are broader and more meaningful than any individual learner could travel alone.