They are valuable only as a means to the end of fuelling domestic spending.
Productivism reversed that logic: welfare provision is a means to the end of economic progress, not the other way around.
Assembling allies once was a means to achieve the end of security.
Cameras, like the array of printers HP sells, are for the most part a means to an end: driving the consumption of more high-margin printing supplies such as ink cartridges.
Some observers argue that China's championing of the SDR is a means to this end: if the yuan, for instance, became part of the SDR basket, foreigners could have exposure to yuan assets.
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This means a drive to the end of an extremely rough, unpaved road, snaking along the spine of the island's northern mountain range, filled with phenomenal views, jaw-chattering potholes and precipitous drops.
Personal budgets are a means to an end: the greater personalisation of services.
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The decision to transport post solely by air and road means the end to the "Victorian solution to a Victorian problem" of moving post around the country.
The Immigration Minister, Beverley Hughes tells us the target was always a "means to an end", refuses to say what the new target is, and says the issue will be addressed in the next few months.
Hibs have not won since the opening day of the season and a stuttering end to the last campaign means the Edinburgh side have taken just four victories from their last 27 outings.
I'm sorry if you think that I sound ungrateful but the fact of the matter is that, in the house I lived in as a kid, playing football for a living (or a means to an end) is regarded as a less-than-worthwhile contribution to the human race.
In a way, Friend sees Rosetta, the company he co-founded, as a means to an end.
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For corporations, on the other hand, the science is a means to an end goal of selling more stuff.
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To adapt the queen's one-liner: for all that the spectacle and unattainable glamour of royalty still fascinates (and helps sell books), for Britain's jubilee monarch the show is a means to an end.
If we wish to maintain the views that no conscious human beings, including those with profound, permanent intellectual disabilities, can be used in ways harmful to them solely as a means to another's end, then we are going to have to extend the boundaries of this principle beyond our own species to other animals who are conscious and able to be harmed.
The internet could be a means to an end to doing this in any number of ways.
The public option -- the public option is only a means to that end, and we should remain open to other ideas that accomplish our ultimate goal.
The product is secondary, a means to an end.
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At the end of the day, spurring a new round of growth for EPE means broadening the fanbase to a younger audience, those either not yet born or in diapers when Presley passed away.
And the consensus of academics doing the talking, particularly in light of experience in Quebec, is that next year's referendum is not the end point of the debate, but the start of a negotiation as to what independence actually means.
This puts political and ethical limits on how far the drive for economic equality ought to go. (Strictly practical limits, as well, since too noble a determination to take from the rich to give to the poor will end up impoverishing everyone.) It also means that perfect economic equality should never be embraced, even implicitly, as an ideal.
Something's happening and it's about the emotion and the feeling behind the music and not really the notes, because that's just a means to end.
Average selling prices for its products continue to fall due to a higher percentage of lower-end VGA chips which means that the company is not getting traction at higher resolution image sensors.
For others a manager may address how failure is a means to an end, and while no one sets out to failure, learning from the experience can make the individual stronger and a better contributor.
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This means that Mr Penry could end up with a reprieve from the state that tried to execute him even before the mighty Supreme Court up in Washington has had a chance to say what it thinks.
In the prose context, this means starting an article or a book with a question and then waiting to answer it until the end.
What they all have in common is a recognition of the centrality of people in the business equation, people not as the means to the end, profit above all, but people as the endgame itself.
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