Sentence examples for several ends from inspiring English sources

Now in its sixth year, the festival served several ends.

But beyond North Korea, a long-term project to abolish nuclear weapons would serve several ends of US policy: preventing proliferation; preventing nuclear terrorism; reducing the unique threat of nuclear annihilation; and restoring optimism about American leadership in the world.

Obama clearly sees green technology as a means to several ends: renewal of the manufacturing base, job growth, economic development and expansion, and, naturally, cleaner energy.

Additive lipids can be used to dope the host mesophase to several ends.

Amid this success, it is important to remember that genetics is a means to one or several ends (such as a biological understanding of disease mechanisms, or identifying the basis of disease in a specific patient) rather than an end in itself.

Several ended up calling him Dad.

Of the remaining 23 cases, "several ended in findings of no violation" by UK authorities.

Several end-of-sentence intonations are possible, but three are especially common: falling, rising, and falling rising.

Of Mr. McCullough's closest teenage buddies, three ended up dead, four ended up in prison and several ended up addicted to drugs.

The brevity of "Modern Guilt" — only two songs are longer than four minutes, and several end abruptly around the three-minute mark — was deliberate, Beck said.

Britain boasts of being the home of parliamentary democracy, yet scores of MPs fiddled expenses with several ending up behind bars.