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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Activists, on the other hand, are sure that the ruling means an end to what they see as intense cruelty.
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.
Frankly, it remains to be seen if the military is truly interested in sharing its power democratically, or if it really supported the Egyptian demonstrators as a means to an end.
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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.
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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This means an end to the sniper fire, infantry deployments and artillery bombardments that have wrought such havoc on these communities and their populations.
The lack of redress also means that smaller grievances - like having to wait an hour at the end of the day to clock off - can suddenly boil over into violence.
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.
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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Since he needs help to rewrite the constitution, he should now turn to the BDP, offering more minority rights and devolution in exchange for an end to violence even if that means talking to the jailed PKK leader, Abdullah Ocalan.
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.
Sanctions against Tehran however have so far failed to change its policies, because they have become an end in themselves, rather than means of making the regime vulnerable to other measures.
Above all, the West must make plain to Mr Putin that Russia's invasion of Georgia means an end to business as usual, even if it continues to work with him on issues such as Iran.
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.
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