Sentences with phrase «used as a means»

A mystery shopping program can be used as a means to offer employee rewards, incentives and promotions, says Hall.

Initial coin offerings, often referred to as ICOs, are used as a means by some companies to raise funds.

Kanvas 5.0 has been in beta for roughly one month with 250 users, and Singh says the real - time editing features are largely being used as a means of expressing a mood.

The first involved establishing personal contact with Americans perceived as sympathetic to Moscow — such as former Defense Intelligence Agency chief Michael Flynn, former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort, and early Trump foreign - policy adviser Carter Page — and using them as a means to further Russia's foreign - policy goals.

We don't know what Amazon plans for Whole Foods, but it could use it as means to expand its grocery delivery service to more rural areas.

The US Commodity Futures Trading Commission has released a new advisement cautioning investors that tax season may be used as a means of lending authenticity to cryptocurrency scams.

Long before James Tobin assigned the letter «Q» to this asset - price ratio, financial analysts were using it as a means to judge how much capacity an economic sector had to take on more loans.

But the Bitcoin network's inefficiencies mean nobody is using it as a means of payment, merely speculating on its price.

Annuities are primarily used as a means of securing a steady cash flow for an individual during their retirement years.

It is almost impossible to use it as a means of payment.

If you have been involved in the bitcoin market, then chances are that you've heard of Bitcoin Pizza Day, a celebration of the time when Laszlo Hanyecz purchased two pizzas with 10,000 BTC, in order to prove that the digital currency can be used as a means of value.

The internal currency of the ecosystem is an ERC - 20 compliant Streamity token (STM), which will be used as a means of payment for all the services offered by the project.

Has religion been used as a means to justify man of these conflicts?

Keep it there, and use it as a means of hastening the inevitable death of religion.

In all likelihood, abortion will be used as a means of selecting healthy offspring by deselecting the rest.

My observation reflects my history with an abusive church where public displays of spirituality were often used as a means of control and as such my comment was perfectly valid.

But that this should be interpreted as freedom from religion, and used as a means of sealing our culture against the imparting of religious knowledge, has no justification in fact.

With the definition of religion given, Marxism would have to be considered a religion, at least for those who do not use it as a means to some political or economic end, but who find «in the conception of the «dialectic of history» with its inevitability, its total relevance, its impersonal justice - making power, the object of supreme valuation and complete relevance to life....

Accompanying such developments as we have noted in the substance of Biblical prayers, an even more profound change was in process: praying, employed at first as a means of persuading a god to do man's will, grew to be used as a means of releasing through man whatever was God's will.

What is new is the way this tendency is now being used as means of slowly but surely eliminating any space for cultural resistance.

I also agree, religion has been used as a means of nefarious coercion, and that is something I deplore as much as you do.

Christianity has drifted away from the core teachings and message that people use it as a means of earnings!

And I object to anyone trying to claim such and use it as a means of control over others.

I am not religous but spiritual, I think religion has been used as a means of control.

In Communist countries, private property has been very limited, with anything that can be used as a means of production belonging to the people through their government.

Therefore, I am not being used as a means — my assets are.

The idea that the conquest of nature is inevitably used as a means to gain power over others is at best an unhelpful half - truth.

majority of people who claim to be, «religious,» are hypocrites and bend and twist the words of there religion to fit there own needs, and use it as a means to an end for all types of things.

Fasting is used as a means to develop detachment.

If people are using this as a means to hate others, then that is their problem.

Those who use it as a means to accomplish something more lofty will either deceive themselves or fail.

By doing so, he violates a basic tenet of Western morality: To respect man as an end in himself and not to use him as a means to an end.

The utilitarianism of an individualistic period, which promised men that through faith they might gain the economic virtues and wealth, differs from the pragmatism of our social climate of opinion, in which religion is used as a means for gaining social order and prosperity; but they are both utilitarian and equally remote from the love of God for his own sake and of the individual or social neighbor in his relation to God.

Even when Pharaoh and his army are drowned, I see God using this as a means to a great and glorious end for Pharaoh, his army, the Egyptians....

«In fact, the symbol, used as a means of detecting and deciphering human reality, will have been verified by its power to raise up, to illuminate, to give order to that region of human experience... «21

The yyarn, the traditional mask dance form of dalits in Kerala, was used as a means to rebuke, ridicule and to some extent question the atrocities and injustices done to them.

Yet most use it as a means to justify horrific acts or to enrich themselves by using religion as a business.

I am pointing out that there are some attempts with certain members / leadership that use this as a means to influence votes.

It's not even an issue in politics - the politicians just use it as a means of getting votes.

The significance of the historical Jesus for Christian faith is that knowledge of this Jesus may be used as a means of testing the claims of the Christs presented in the competing kerygmata to be Jesus Christ.

The grid was so large that pre-qualifying events and the qualifying session itself was used as a means of weeding out uncompetitive entrants.

Ooh I see, as an AKB you only saw the game we recently won and use that as a means to justify the deluded's one failure and the team as a whole!!

That is a silly way to look at things — just like the win over Houston in the Conference USA title game shouldn't be used as the sole reason for hiring somebody, a lackluster bowl performance shouldn't be used as means for questioning the hire — but that tends to be how people react.

well, I hope we go on and win the trophy, but if we do, Wenger should just use it as a means to bow out, and let fresh ideas be infused into our club.

It's a crying shame that a club stooped in prestige and supported by hundreds of millions across the globe feel the need to undermine the competition by using it as a means of rotating their squad.

Players such as Camacho, Pirri, Butragueño, Santillana and probably most famously Juanito will be used as a means of inspiring the memories of great nights for the Spanish capital club.

Already used as a means of posting inspirational quotes to social media, this technique can help make your simpler status messages pop.

If friends try to pressure you to use your phone in a way that violates our agreement or your own sense of what's right, stand up for yourself and / or use us as a means to extract yourself from the situation (e.g., «My parents won't allow me to...»).

Having lived through this emotional mindf * ck with my FIL and now feeling calm enough to recant the torrid tale — I'll spare you the gory details — I'm reminded of the many times my girls have gotten into disagreements with one another and the coping mechanisms my husband and I have used as a means to resolve their differences.

In ancient times, babywearing was used as a means