Example sentences of "means to [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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1 | So Moore 's method can hardly allow us to attach any intrinsic value to education at all ; its value must be that of a means to other things or perhaps as an element in some larger whole of value . |
2 | Others only backed the idea as a means to other ends . |
3 | So too wealth should be used as a means to good ends , but never be sought or enjoyed for its own sake . |
4 | It takes its cue from other kinds of liberation , and rests the call for Animal Liberation on the recognition of the rights of nonhuman animals , including in particular their right not to be treated as mere means to human ends . |
5 | Animals are means to human ends . |
6 | Chaffee ( 1985 ) , for example , identifies three models of the strategy construct : linear analysis ( essentially a linear deductive process aimed at achieving specific managerial objectives ) , adaptive analysis ( responding to environmental objectives , and providing the appropriate organizational match ) and interpretative analysis ( conceptualizing what change means to different individuals ; legitimating developments ; developing symbols to encourage action and taking action to create symbols of desired behaviour ; improving relationships ) . |
7 | Stimson and US secretary of state Cordell Hull were convinced that world peace and prosperity were two sides of the same coin , with " unhampered trade " as a major means to those ends . |
8 | Now it 's true that since the second world war all wars have been limited in one sense or another , but then comes the question , if you do , in fact , succeed in defining objectives er and de in defining the means to those objectives , how can you know in fact that you possess genuine capability without putting it to the test , without actually fighting the war and then finding that you can not win it ? |
9 | In such an ethic , my rational ends at any one time would be the goals , whether of long-term ambition or of momentary caprice , to which I spontaneously tend in the fullest awareness then available , and all my deliberate acts would be means to these ends . |