If this movie matters, therefore, it is not for its own sake but because it prepares the way.
Curing is necessary because it prepares the leaves for consumption; the process produces various compounds in the leaf which give cured tobacco its hay, tea, rose oil, or fruity aromatic flavor.
This is partly because it was so unlikely, but chiefly because it prepared the ground for the Athenian enlightenment and its great flowering of philosophy and history, of rhetoric and drama and poetry – ways of organising intellectual and public life that are at the core of so much later western thought.
Yet he recalled the moment fondly, with gratitude, because it prepared the Hawks for the next step.
Milton explored the ancient, and Calvinist, teaching that the first sin was a felix culpa, a fortunate fall, and providential because it prepared the way for the world's ultimate reconciliation to God.
If so many philosophers at the beginning of the 20th century (Spengler, Popper and Arendt, for example) were concerned with the "total subordination of reason to metaphysical reality" it's because, as Herbert Marcuse pointed out, it "prepares the way for racist ideology".
Where there are few educational opportunities for children to choose another path in life, they work because it prepares them for the life they are going to lead.
It is the task of science to understand why death need not be feared, that the philosophical life is particularly indispensable because it prepares us for death, and that the kinds of death that we are prone to fear particularly, such as death through an earthquake, are really not much different from more usual kinds of death.
And I like to eat so it's the perfect drink for me because it prepares me to eat.
Circle of education The ECD centre is also popular with teachers, because it prepares children to attend primary school.
He told Reuters his fighters had targeted the campus because it prepared students to join the government and army.
