Sentence examples for a means in from inspiring English sources

Theirs was a shadow court for a darkening age, and their embrace of image as a means in itself prefigured, and probably laid the way for, contemporary celebrity.

He said that he stumbled onto the secret of teaching happiness as a means in itself when counseling an AIDS sufferer who had read "Food for Thought" and told the author the phrase in the book that meant the most to him was "Happiness is a decision".

as a means in the broader sense.

The acquisition of stock and its wellbeing has been described as a means in itself rather than a means to an end (van Raay 1975).

Facing the challenge of dealing with the numerous nonlinear constraints and integer variables in the optimization steps, genetic algorithm is applied as a means in the solution procedure to aid in finding the optimal decision.

The claim for more homogeneity of specified rules in case study research misses the important aspect that a method is not a means in itself, but aims at providing improved theories (van Maanen et al. 2007).

ARABS: The word "Abed" means "slave" in Arabic.

"A ceasefire means in the first place halting the terrorists from strengthening their positions.

"Do you know what a regulation means in Russia?" Mr. Felgenhauer said.

It comes down to what such a fatwa means in real life: it segregates.

People will talk about what a fur ban means in a new way".