Sentence examples for the chief end from inspiring English sources

He concluded that the chief end is pleasure.

The first question and answer of the Shorter Catechism are well known: "What is the chief end of man?

While pain may cause a certain amount of sexual excitement in many persons, for the masochist it becomes the chief end of sexual activity.

But all three groups are agreed that "doing as one likes" is the chief end of man, and all are self-satisfied.

The chief problem for eudaemonist theories is to show that leading a life of virtue will also be attended by happiness by the winning of the goods regarded as the chief end of action.

He added: The chief end gained by the action of our armies seems to be to guard the property of rebels, while they themselves are in the Southern ranks or joined in cowardly warfare in bands of Guerrillas.

TAN was the chief end-product of protein metabolism; about 74 84% of the daily total nitrogenous excretion was TAN.

And that this was one of the chief ends sought to be accomplished by the provisions in question, the record amply establishes.

The Xbox chief ended his keynote by reiterating the importance of the PC as a gaming platform.

Urea is the chief nitrogenous end product of the metabolic breakdown of proteins in all mammals and some fishes.

The synthesis of urea (the chief nitrogenous end product of protein metabolism), discovered in 1828, broke down the discontinuity between the organic and the inorganic in chemistry, which had been a mainstay of nonmaterialistic biology.