Sentence examples for instrumental value for from inspiring English sources

For instance, certain fruits have instrumental value for bats who feed on them, since feeding on the fruits is a means to survival for the bats.

We can likewise think of a person who teaches others as having instrumental value for those who want to acquire knowledge.

For example, one may assume that the Nazarbayev regime will undertake more profound democratisation if the occurrence of certain changes in external or internal factors enhances the bloc's instrumental value for and, consequently, its leverage over Astana.

First, such accounts underestimate the important role of the considerations of economic development and modernisation, deeply rooted in Nazarbayev's thinking, as well as the EU's (discussed below) and China's high instrumental value for these goals.

Interestingly, since Brussels' approach toward Astana specifically and Central Asia in general is also substantially determined by instrumental benefits, shifts in the bloc's stance toward the region have also been commonly related to changes in external conditions which augmented the region's instrumental value for the EU.

We used the instrumental values for total phenol and paraben concentrations below the LOD; for free phenol and paraben concentrations, instrumental values below the LOD were not provided (i.e., missing) because the majority of free concentrations were so low that the instrument software recorded them as "no peak" or "< 0".

How intimately is consciousness bound up with those features of our own and others' lives that give them intrinsic or non-instrumental value for us?

But intrinsic value is not merely non-instrumental value; for it is also to be distinguished from what Moore calls the 'value as a part' of a situation, namely the extra contribution which the situation makes to the value of a complex situation of which it is a 'part', over and above its intrinsic value.

What if the emotional suffering incurred by the use of "traditional" methods was severe and protracted enough that the instrumental value of that pain (for personal growth, self-discovery, etc).

When guidelines were finally published in 2001, they both mentioned the instrumental value of mother-tongue instruction for the learning of Danish, and the intrinsic value it has for the self-identification and development of the child (Undervisningsministeriet [Ministry of Education], 2001).

The Conservatives and the Liberal Party both argued, first, that no scientific evidence supported the instrumental value of mother-tongue instruction for learning Danish, and, secondly, that questions of cultural diversity and the pupil's cultural identity belonged to the private sphere, not the school.