Sentence examples for become ends from inspiring English sources

But these virtues, chillingly, become ends in themselves.

For many, those rights have become ends in themselves that need no justification.

But now change and audacity have become ends in and of themselves, as well as a prerequisite for media attention.

His virtuosic set pieces -- the lengthy and somewhat tedious evocations of Santiago's nursery, for instance -- can become ends in themselves.

Again? Publicity and political gain having become ends in themselves in our sorry cultural wars, the bait is once more being dangled.

The capital markets are no longer the means to serve the capital allocation needs of the real economy, but have become ends in themselves.

When they put him in handcuffs, Kumar's long struggle to separate himself from what he had become ended.

They will become end users with an interest in seeing that the dealers from whom they buy derivatives are well managed, well regulated and well capitalized.

Hence, end conversion is likely to be a gradual process in which some microtubules bound to a kinetochore may remain laterally bound while few others have become end-on (mixed-lateral attachment).

During George W. Bush's second term, the National Defense Strategy of the United States became "ending tyranny in our world".

2. Social ends become business ends.