a means to an end

The single market is not a means to an end.

More of a means to an end than anything else.

She is nothing more than a means to an end.

For him, work is just a means to an end.

Like everything else, they were a means to an end.

But she said the race was just a means to an end.

I see it as a means to an end even more now.

And so I use the political stuff as a means to an end.

Music as a means to an end is basic to his art.

No good at all, except as a means to an end.

He could not allow her to mean more to him than a means to an end.

It is, and always has been, a means to an end.

He knows that the future is a means to an end, and he's got plans.

Human beings must never be a means to an end.

I thought he was just a tool, a means to an end.

"We never had much time to think of an animal as any more than a means to an end."

Probably because this kind of thinking was still pretty foreign to a man who knew marriage as just a means to an end.

Rather, it is arranged by the director as a means to an end.

Caring for the young is a means to an end.

They are both a means to an end, to the place of definitions.

But competitiveness itself is only a means to an end.

She was a hostage and a means to an end.