Because your heir thrives off the work he or she does, the job is an end in itself rather than the means to an end.
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Cameras, like the array of printers HP sells, are for the most part a means to an end: driving the consumption of more high-margin printing supplies such as ink cartridges.
The Immigration Minister, Beverley Hughes tells us the target was always a "means to an end", refuses to say what the new target is, and says the issue will be addressed in the next few months.
In short, the fiscal cliff means an automatic end to the tax cuts put in place under George W., and automatic across-the-board cuts to the government budget, as promised in the August 2011 debt ceiling compromise.
For corporations, on the other hand, the science is a means to an end goal of selling more stuff.
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To adapt the queen's one-liner: for all that the spectacle and unattainable glamour of royalty still fascinates (and helps sell books), for Britain's jubilee monarch the show is a means to an end.
The internet could be a means to an end to doing this in any number of ways.
This means a drive to the end of an extremely rough, unpaved road, snaking along the spine of the island's northern mountain range, filled with phenomenal views, jaw-chattering potholes and precipitous drops.
The product is secondary, a means to an end.
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Such goods may be means to an end but the nature of the means is still important.
Personal budgets are a means to an end: the greater personalisation of services.
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And the President looks forward tomorrow to thanking the troops, thanking those who served, and discussing what that sacrifice that Americans have made means now, as the Iraq war comes to an end -- which is, as you know, what the President promised he would do when he was running for President, which was to end this war responsibly.
The defeat means the Canaries slip below Nottingham Forest into third in the table and brings an end to their eight-game unbeaten run in the Championship.
I'm sorry if you think that I sound ungrateful but the fact of the matter is that, in the house I lived in as a kid, playing football for a living (or a means to an end) is regarded as a less-than-worthwhile contribution to the human race.
Millennials, on the other hand, largely view work simply as means to an end.
In a way, Friend sees Rosetta, the company he co-founded, as a means to an end.
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In the prose context, this means starting an article or a book with a question and then waiting to answer it until the end.
For those who operate according to the calendar year, that means its time for an end-of-quarter checkup for any strategic plans.
Every small business owner knows that the laws of finance will allow negative cash to be augmented with debt as a temporary means to an end, but not as a long-term way of life.
The Conservative AM added: "Mid Wales is suffering from a general wage packet downsizing which inevitably means a knock-on loss of spending power from the local economy and an end to any ideas of owning a house for many more local people".
Together, Caldwell's buying and the growing expectations that Thain had something dramatic up his sleeve may have helped push up seat prices enough that NYSE's 1, 366 members now face an offer too good to refuse--even if it means the end of their way of life on the NYSE floor.
For others a manager may address how failure is a means to an end, and while no one sets out to failure, learning from the experience can make the individual stronger and a better contributor.
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