Sentence examples for proximate end from inspiring English sources

Aquinas' way of saying this is: acts are specified by — have their specific character from — their objects, where "objects" has the focal meaning of proximate end as envisaged by the deliberating and acting person.

Both the presented case and animal model demonstrated that when using the 100 mm Proximate® linear cutter (TLC 10, Ethicon Endo-Surgery) care must be used when stapling tissue close to the proximal end of the cutter.

In an animal model three different lengths of linear cutters (Proximate®, Ethicon Endo-Surgery) were used to cross-staple and transect the large bowel of one pig to check for the integrity of the proximal end of the staple line.

Third, while the proximate and constitutive end of a value judgment is the resumption of activity that has been interrupted by a problematic situation, judgment has a remoter end, of using the action decided upon as a means for uncovering new evidence about what to value.

That's the proximate strategic goal".

The ultimate aim is to improve health outcomes, and health services are the most proximate function to that end.

Many secondary and tertiary factors of course influence the proximate determinants but at the end of the day, these two factors most directly affect unintended pregnancies and by extension abortions.

End points included assessment of general characteristics of patients, reasons for admission to the ICU, identification of variables independently associated with ICU mortality and 1-year mortafter after ICU discharge, and assessment of proximate causes of death.

A familiar way to avoid such confusion and perhaps the best way in evolutionary discussions is to replace teleological explanations (which are goal-directed) with teleonomical explanations, which sound similar but replace final (ultimate) causes with original (proximate) causes and are thus not end-driven.

The biggest proximate cause of the budget crunch is the end of the great 1990's boom; second place goes to surging medical costs.

"I take death as serious and proximate, I always have," Mantel has observed.