Sentences with phrase «sought as an end in»

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As Barroso explained, the black market nature of abortions in Brazil has attracted scam artists who exploit the vulnerability of women seeking to end their pregnancies.

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.

In recent years the Puerto Rican capital has risen as a destination of choice for high - end travellers seeking contemporary art, inventive cuisine and luxurious jungle retreats.

In an interview as her tenure ends, Lynch strongly defended the Justice Department's aggressive intervention in local law enforcement during the Obama administration, including the decision to repeatedly seek court - enforceable improvement plans with troubled police agencieIn an interview as her tenure ends, Lynch strongly defended the Justice Department's aggressive intervention in local law enforcement during the Obama administration, including the decision to repeatedly seek court - enforceable improvement plans with troubled police agenciein local law enforcement during the Obama administration, including the decision to repeatedly seek court - enforceable improvement plans with troubled police agencies.

VC investors seek to end their funding in three to seven years as per their investment strategy.

The Bessemer Venture Partners - backed company set a price range from $ 12 to $ 14 for 10 million Class A shares in a regulatory filing Monday, seeking to raise as much as $ 140 million at the high end of the range.

Without engaging in some due diligence, the passive investor seeking exposure to high dividend stocks could end up in an ETF with a few as 46 holdings or as many as 680.

Founded by Laurent Leloup, an expert in blockchain and corporate finance, Chaineum refers to itself as the first French «ICO boutique», providing a range of end - to - end services to companies and international startups seeking to leverage this new funding mechanism to finance their development.

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.

The metaphor of moving a mountain as it relates to doing the work of peace - making and justice - seeking since my first visit to Haiti crops up often in my life and work — in fact, I ended up dedicating an entire chapter of my book to this beautiful idea).

Holloway follows the traditional notion of the «remedy for concupiscence», saying that it is permitted to seek sex «for the tempering of disordered natural desire», [7] «in remedium concupiscentiae», as long as this is done in such a way as not to thwart the primary end of the act.

This understanding of the limited scope of scientific method had been generally accepted since Kant's Critique of Pure Reason (1781); but in nineteenth - century evolutionary parlance it took on the specific meaning that «all beginnings and endings are lost in mystery,» a phrase that became commonplace in the sciences and social sciences as a way of dismissing or circumventing probing questions that sought to assess the larger implications or consequences of scientific analysis.

So soon as the human race reaches the level of shared appreciation, ordered and agreed convictions as to ends or aims to be sought after and if possible achieved, and a pattern of common life in which the mutuality and sharing known at the personal level can be broadened in more or less formal communal patterns, we can speak of the appearance of civilization.

Because of the «ism» at the end, making it appear as if it were an ideology, and the fact that they do not understand the definition of the word... and many seek to use a «false equivalency» in a bid to bolster their failed arguments, too.

Consider a partial list of developments since just World War II: a broad national decline in denominational loyalty, changes in ethnic identity as hyphenated Americans enter the third and subsequent generations after immigration, the great explosion in the number of competing secular colleges and universities, the professionalization of academic disciplines with concomitant professional formation of faculty members during graduate education, the dramatic rise in the percentage of the population who seek higher education, the sharp trend toward seeing education largely in vocational and economic terms, the rise in government regulation and financing, the great increase in the complexity and cost of higher education, the development of a more litigious society, the legal end of in loco parentis, an exponential and accelerating growth in human knowledge, and so on.

Through Christian education the fellowship of believers (the church) seeks to help persons become aware of God's seeking love as shown especially in Jesus Christ and to respond in faith and love to the end that they may develop self - understanding, sell - acceptance, and self - fulfillment under God; increasingly identify themselves as sons of God and members of the Christian community; live as Christian disciples in all relations in human society; and abide in the Christian hope.

The long history of man's seeking to offer himself to God, as is his bounden duty, is here fulfilled as the worshiper is brought into union with Christ and by Christ is offered to the Father, that through such self - commitment and dedication to God, the will of the Father may more perfectly be done and our own lives enriched by His Grace, so that «we may do all such good works as he has prepared for us to walk in»; and, in the end, dwell with Him in heavenly places.

Whatever happens, happens as the result of the creature's self - activity in utilizing its causal conditions to achieve its ends, but God is everywhere and at all times seeking that which is best, given the circumstances.

WHEREAS, throughout our history, both as a state and as individuals, Texans have been strengthened, assured and lifted up through prayer; it seems right and fitting that the people of Texas should join together in prayer to humbly seek an end to this devastating drought and these dangerous wildfires;

We shall join as a human community in seeking to end the spiritual, psychological, intellectual and economic impoverishment of all women.

Is there one goal to which all other goals are subordinate, not necessarily as means to end, but as proximate objectives that should be sought only in relation to a final purpose?

Believe in YWHY and YESHUA and what they did for you and seek them then shall you be free The illusion of death and disease and debt are not real and as a nation we deserve everything that comes up on us as you can tell the end has already begun.

This book hopefully is one small contribution to that end as it seeks to interpret the doctrine of love on the basis of the conviction that the eternal God is involved in the world's becoming, and that his love takes new forms in history.

In the end, Isaiah 54 shows us once again that behind the terrible death and destruction of the flood, there is a beautiful theme of God's love, grace, and mercy as He seeks to rescue and deliver people from the storms of life.

In short, while various Third Questers have sought to void or avoid the scandal of the cross, Wright shows how it is quite plausible that Jesus would end up as he did.

This claim is frequently presented, whether implicitly or explicitly, as a correlative to the idea that Christianity often as personified by Jesus or less frequently by Paul - was «goad» for women, paid them particular attention, or at least offered them opportunities not otherwise available, to caricature, the ideal of «the Feminist Jesus».60 In an admirable and scholarly article Leonard Swidler has marshaled historical evidences to show convincingly that Jesus was a Feminist.61 The politics of such a view is self - evident, for much study of the subject has developed within a context where women were struggling to establish a proper role for themselves within the contemporary church; to this end they have sought an egalitarian past to act as model for present polity.62

And the key to this development, in turn, is to increase agricultural production — mostly through Green Revolution — style technologies — so that «as food production per farmer rises, an economy needs fewer and fewer farmers to feed the overall population,» a situation which ends up «inducing farmers and especially their children to seek employment in nonfarm activities.»

Here we are confronted with the difficulty to which Socrates calls attention in the Meno (80, near the end), and there characterizes as a «pugnacious proposition»; one can not seek for what he knows, and it seems equally impossible for him to seek for what he does not know.

The persuasiveness of religious programs toward change appear to be greatest when they are viewed by a person who is in a state of attitude imbalance or transition and seeking new forms of gratification for his or her needs; when they are viewed by a person for whom religious faith has always been a viable, if not vital, option; when the options being presented are seen as realistic and leading to a desirable end; when opportunity for demonstration exists in proximate distance to the viewing situation; and when the attitude or behavior is not central to the individual's self - concept and ego - functioning.

Dale Van Kley's new book, The Religious Origins of the French Revolution, seeks to revive a sort of Whiggish interpretation of the French Revolution as the struggle for freedom against sacral monarchy, with much of the ideological discourse of the revolutionaries deriving from little expected religious controversies» beginning with the rise and fall of Calvinism in Catholic France, continuing through the struggles over theological Jansenism, and ending in the political struggles of the French high courts of justice, the parlements, with the administrative monarchy of the eighteenth century.

Freud's myth is instructive, because it suggests the futility of seeking an end to repression and limitation in the death of God as Professor Altizer would do.

In any case, you're likely to end up with beans with split skins and an unappetizing level of mushiness as you seek to cook them until they're tender.

Treasury Wines has experienced rapid growth in Asia because higher - end brands such as Penfolds and Wolf Blass are sought after by Chinese drinkers, with profits doubling to $ 46.5 million from the Asian region in the first half of 2015 - 16.

Treasury Wine Buys Diageo Wine Assets for $ 600 Million: Treasury Wine Estates Ltd., the maker of Penfolds Grange, agreed to buy most of Diageo Plcs U.S. and U.K. wine assets for $ 600 million as it seeks to add high - end labels in some of the world's biggest markets...

We are committed to helping transform the recycling system, seek innovations to change the materials we use, such as polyethylene terephthalate (PET), and work to recover the unmanaged waste that is ending up in the environment and, more specifically, our rivers and oceans.

By the end of the week, the old chaps seemed to have it by a hair — until I went to Gymkhana, which, in its own words, seeks to fuse the Raj with modern Britain, where curry is as popular as fish and chips.

The Red Devils recently brought in Marcos Rojo from Sporting Lisbon in a deal worth around # 16m, but it has been suggested that one more signing in defence could be made as van Gaal seeks to replace both Nemanja Vidic and Rio Ferdinand, who both left Old Trafford at the end of their contracts last season.

Nineteen minutes from time and with the real tension being felt in the cold March air in the impressive Mercedes Benz - Arena Daniel Schwaab was unfortunate not to end the suffering for those compelled to watch what was becoming a tedious encounter when he was thwarted by Kraft as the Huub Stevens men sought a much needed goal.

Whether or not he is willing to leave Turin at this stage of his career remains to be seen though, as with Juve still in the hunt for a treble this season, time will tell if they can finally end their wait for another triumph in Europe and if that leaves Allegri seeking a new challenge.

The Dutch coach has overseen a fine run of results, cumulating in a 1 - 0 victory over Arsenal on Sunday, but the machinations continue at Stamford Bridge as the Pensioners seek out a long - term successor for Mourinho, and look to identify the ideal candidate to replace Hiddink at the season's end.

Dangle the carrot of an exciting player to the press, keep stirring the pot until the end of January, the player doesn't move and all the fans whinge and moan but soon forget as we seek top 6 status in the coming months.

According to The Mirror, Sturridge has informed Liverpool of his intention to leave as he seeks a move to join Sevilla, but ultimately the Reds want # 25m for him, either this month or at the end of a loan spell in the summer, which the report suggests is making it more difficult for an agreement to be reached.

Reds boss Brendan Rodgers has been looking to add some significant additions to his side this summer as the club will most likely be involved in next season's Champions League as they still seek to end their 24 year wait for a league title.

On the plus side, Michael Dawson is now fully fit, as is striker Jermain Defoe, with only Rafael Van Der Vaary now a major absentee for Spurs as they seek to end an encouraging 2010 in style by extending their unbeaten run in the league (Currently 6).

Comparisons between Jadeveon Clowney and eight - time Pro Bowler Julius Peppers aren't hard to find as NFL draft analysts seek to paint an illustration of what the former South Carolina defensive end is capable of in the NFL.

Last Saturday, Blackburn found themselves up against it right from the off, as per usual these days in fairness, and Rovers were very quickly put to the sword by a Spurs side seeking to end a dire run of form whilst abolishing Blackburn's impressive streak of two matches without defeat.

Pogba, who also experienced defeats last season, especially to Chelsea in the semi-final of the Emirates FA Cup as the ten holders crashed out having lost 1 - 0, has stated that the team are seeking the challenges which will see them push to win trophies, something manager Jose Mourinho has inspired the players to do, something which had been lacking since the retirement of former manager, Sir Alex Ferguson, who stood down at the end of the 2012/13 season, the last time United ended the season as Premier League champions.

All of the previous five Premiership clashes between the two have ended in Chelsea's favour, so in spite of the fact Wolves are seeking their third home success in their last four at Molineux, as opposed to Chelsea trying to better a miserable run of one win in eight, the likelihood of Wolves celebrating a win over Wolves still looks highly improbable.

Gerard Houllier hasn't seen the honeymoon period end earlier than he would have hoped, with Villa's two successive wins in the league (beating Wolves 2 - 1) and in the Carling Cup (beating Blackburn 3 - 1) all but a distant memory now as the Villains (3.75 VCbet) seek out their first league win in five matches.

The season is still fairly young but already Wolves manager Mick McCarthy has his side gearing up for a must - win encounter on Saturday, a relegation six - pointer if you like, as the Midlander's finally get their turn to get all excited about a trip to the Seaside, only their dismal start to the season means there will be no fun and games down in Blackpool, strictly business as the team currently positioned second bottom in the table seek to end a run of three consecutive loses.