Sentence examples for towards ends from inspiring English sources

Once in a majority, these governors seek to divert the leadership, ethos and curriculum of schools towards ends that do not have the interests of their students at heart.

That our nature is structured towards ends, which Butler takes to be empirically evident, gives evidence of a hierarchy of principles to attain the ends, a hierarchy where some principles must be naturally subordinate to others (N3).

Just as a clock is not an individual gear, or a pile of gears, but is what it is due to the ways in which the gears move together towards an end, so too human nature is not a particular principle of action, or a bundle of principles, but the interaction of principles, desires, and reasons, as a system towards ends.

"These companies are just trying to exploit consumers' data towards ends of private profit," said Segal of Demand Progress.

According to Weismann, these instincts guide animals towards ends without having any consciousness of these ends.

EST sequences provide information on the structure of alternative isoforms and include data from different gene expression contexts, but this information is highly biased towards ends of genes and is sparse, for all but the most highly expressed genes.

So people are really working towards ending the practice.

That would be a first step towards ending them.

Or a positive step towards ending violent extremism?

"For me, they're steps towards ending the embargo".

The British foreign secretary, Philip Hammond, called the resolution a "significant step" towards ending the civil war.