Partnerships of donors can become an expensive end in themselves, merely delaying real action.

But unfortunately, consensus (often interpreted as requiring unanimity) has become an end in itself.

Here too, reaching an agreement before the end of the year may become a reality.

There is no sign of an end to the sectarian violence, and little prospect that Iraq can become a peaceful, unitary democracy.

NEW YORK It has become popular to suggest that when the dust settles from the global financial crisis, it may become clear that the United States led post war world has come to an end.

Finance is a means to an end, not an end in itself.

An untimely end

The confederation I advocate would thus constitute an intermediate stage (lasting five or ten years), at the end of which Kosovo is likely to become fully independent.

But influence is not an end in itself it is a means to an end.

The inner mass of cells differentiate to become embryoblasts and polarise at one end.

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It has become an obsession.

The EU s Economic and Monetary Union was a means to an end, not an end in itself.

Had such a coup attempt taken place, much less succeeded, it also would have put an end to Turkey s aspirations to become a full member of the European Union.

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Behold , Gehenna has become an ambush ,

But recent events do spell the end of one version of European integration the vision of an ever closer union producing a federal country that would become a new superpower.

The dreams from his father were at an end, and he was left, as he only slowly realized, with the themeless pragmatism that has become the hallmark of his administration.

He who pampers his servant from youth will have him become a son in the end.

Every downturn comes to an end.

In summary, by the end of 2004, over half the countries formerly abolitionist for ordinary crimes had either become completely abolitionist or had plans to become so.

Her ambition is to become an ambassador.

Her ambition is to become an ambassador.

Instead, Asia has become an economic powerhouse.

Indeed , Gehenna ( Hell ) has become an ambush ,

But this has become an obscure approach.

By the end of the 14th century, Venice had become one of the richest states in Europe.

The job had become available because John Timpson was going to retire at the end of 1986.

Formulas are not an end in themselves the end has to be a decrease in poverty and an increase in employment.

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But that is coming to an end.

At the other end of the spectrum, rape, adultery, early child bearing, and abortion have become ordinary matters.

1910, and by the end of World War I the disc had become the dominant commercial recording format.

None of them had abolished the death penalty or become de facto abolitionist by the end of 2003.

So exporting will become an even tougher business.

None is likely to become an American poodle.

An end has come, the end has come it awakes against you behold, it comes.

But we should not become complacent. We must continue to be resolute and vigilant in safeguarding the ideals of the Court so that it can become what it was meant by its creators to be the upholder of international criminal law and an institution capable of bringing an end to impunity for perpetrators of the most heinous crimes.

An end is come, the end is come it watcheth for thee behold, it is come.

When will the world come to an end?

The Twentieth Congress put an end to that.

Such conduct must be put to an end.

Israeli settlement activities must come to an end.

I've subsequently become an envoy for Scotland and HIV.

And Putin himself has become an insufferably vulgar embarrassment.