An employer asking for commitment may also be hoping to find someone who will stay for a while rather than using the job as a stepping stone elsewhere.
Like Obama, Hagel — who is not running for reëlection this year — seems to have viewed the Senate more as a stepping stone than as a final destination.
And it sees the fall of Saddam Hussein less as the end of a great diplomatic and military effort than as a step in an ongoing process.
Majoring in economics or in ORFE — a department begun at the height of the dot-com boom — was pursued less for its own sake than as a step on a preprofessional path.
Erotic love might exist only on its own terms, rather than as a step toward ideal domesticity, but it was still possible, he believed, only within a Christian context, even if it was a Christian heresy.
Oxidation of internucleosidic H-phosphonate diester linkages in 8 to phosphodiester linkages in 9 with a solution of iodine in aqueous pyridine is carried out at the end of the chain assembly rather than as a step in the synthetic cycle.
The processing of a 5′ flap was previously proposed as a step in meiotic recombination (Osman et al. 2003), although in this model, the flap was generated during resolution of a recombination intermediate into a crossover rather than as a step in producing a conversion event unassociated with a crossover.
This means that, rather than serving as a stepping-stone to more lucrative careers in medicine or mental health, the National Health Service Corps usually helps people who are committed to serving the poor for years to come.
Pickover says her ultimate goal is to become an assistant headteacher, but SLE status has more reward than just as a career stepping stone.
The Grip wrist band, which will come in a range of bright colors including lime green, is being positioned as a ruggedized, water resistant wearable for athletes and sports oriented folk, rather than as a general step tracker to motivate people who don't move very much (although it does do step tracking).
