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".
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).
As an artist I strive to make technology (if used) an essential inseparable tool — but still to be fundamentally a tool for exploration rather than a means in itself.
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).
"Those who study nursing know that the advancement of knowledge is not a means in itself but is deeply rooted in our social responsibility to improve health," says Gilliss. "When we educate nurses, we prepare women and men to make an impact on the health of their patients and their relevant communities.
But while technology clearly has a role to play in assisting and empowering refugees and displaced people, as Olivier Delarue puts it: "Importing new technologies is not a means in itself, rather it's mostly about working with communities to identify, amplify and modernise the solutions they are already developing".
Thus, a Q_R > 0 means, in itself, nothing, as Poisot rightly assumes when employing a null model.
However, developing a MPHP was frequently seen as a – statutorily required – means in itself, and implementation was often lagging.
This may suggest that in certain situations, there were no transparency and accountability among staff members and their management; patients' care may be affected; work may have been seen as a means to an end and not a means in itself.
