Sentence examples for the ends at which from inspiring English sources

And whether these actions are advisable, in turn, depends upon whether they are efficient means to the ends at which they aim, and whether those ends are themselves in the subject's interests.

Smith suggests that in taking the good person to be motivated to do what she believes morally right, whatever that might be, the externalist picture "alienates her from the ends at which morality properly aims" (76).

While Berlin emphasised the place of questions about the proper ends of political action in the subject-matter of political theory, he also recognised the importance of discussions of the proper means to employ, and the relationship between these and the ends at which they aim.

Place the matches in the holes on the side of the corrugated cardboard, alternating the ends at which the heads protrude (see photo).

"We need a new plan," Walter remarks toward the end, at which point you may still not be too clear on what the old plan was.

And then I stayed horrified until the end, at which point I realised that I'd actually been watching my least favourite James Bond film.

It's a decorous "bottom" instead of "arse", and there's just one "cock", right at the end, at which point Lady C is so embarrassed she doesn't know where to look.

In the 17th century, John Dryden, deciding that ending a sentence with a preposition was "not elegant" because you couldn't do it in Latin, set about ruining some of his best prose by rewriting it so that "the end he aimed at" became "the end at which he aimed", and so on.

19) Sidgwick added, "It is not necessary that the end which gives the criterion of rightness should always be the end at which we consciously aim".

Whether one or more of these normality approaches fully achieves the end at which it aims, which remains to be seen, they certainly introduce a fresh and well-motivated angle that holds promise for dealing effectively with familiar counterexamples.

Nas narrates the tale in conventional fashion until the ending, at which the track rewinds to an earlier point and he revises his original ending.