Hiding behind its exclusive-sounding name and imposing facade brooding over Massachusetts Avenue was a stunning Gilded Age palace built for yet another charmed couple of seemingly endless means.
In belt drive, pulleys are affixed to shafts at their axes, and power is transmitted between the shafts by means of endless belts running over the pulleys.
Michael Novak, the Catholic philosopher and sometime sports metaphysician, has written, perhaps only half in jest, that sports occupy "the Kingdom of Ends" — things done for their own sake — and thus constitute something finer and more lasting than work and history, which operate in the realm of means, of endless and restless seeking.
Despite the cultural myth that mothers have an endless capacity to give, their means of expressing love -- their time, energy and material assets -- are finite.
The emergence of these transit villages reflects the "smart growth" ideas that have largely focused on the suburbs as a means of slowing endless sprawl by directing growth back into older municipalities with existing utilities, communications and mass transit.
And, the federation added, services should provide a quick, easy means of cancellation — "no endless busy signals, no multiple hoops to jump through".
Stafford Smith continued: "Forced 'confessions' are often extracted under torture, racism, prosecutorial misconduct —the list of problems in capital cases is endless and means the risk of an innocent person being executed is terrifyingly high.
To avoid the Security Council's endless deadlocks, the treaty could establish its own means of enforcement.
It means endless rows of laying hens kept in battery cages so small that the birds cannot even stretch their wings.
