own ends

You don't have to thank him for doing that "favor" for you. He did it for his own ends.

He knew in advance what O'Brien would say. That the Party did not seek power for its own ends, but only for the good of the majority.

Since his own ends are clearly given and he acts to pursue them, surely at least his actions can be considered efficient.

Such regional alliance would be a strategic endeavor that the multitude would have to bend toward its own ends.

Ory, impressed by the idea, agrees to help but secretly resolves to use the plan for his own ends.

The Lord works out everything for his own ends- even the wicked for a day of disaster.

The Communist regime is not the first to manipulate Confucius to its own ends.

Some of them sought to further their own ends, at the cost of my inexperience, with many an extraordinary device.

The secret to being creative is recognizing the genius of others and re-purposing it for your own ends.

But the ordinary man is cynical; he believes, rightly or wrongly, that Germany is using the Games for her own ends.

COMPANIES ARE NOT the only ones adapting personal technology to their own ends. Armies are too.

This intelligence of ours is captured and held hostage by ignorance, which then makes use of it freely for its own ends.

But with that new ability may have come a new tool that cancer cells could borrow for their own ends.

The shrewdest counterrevolutionaries, moreover, happily exploit revolutionary achievements to their own ends.

She is taking advantage of the situation for her own ends.

In one sense, companies are behaving like capitalists everywhere, working the system for their own ends.

Napoleon has redrawn the map of Europe to suit his own ends.

Officials and eunuchs served the emperors and the court ladies, many pleasing them for their own ends.

Lead Beckett to Shipwreck Cove so as to gain his trust. . . . . . accomplish your own ends?

The country's powerful religious parties have also tried to use the turbulence for their own ends.

capable of choosing his or her own ends.

Such people use others as means to their own ends, and never consider them as ends in themselves.

Adhere to the hard-working, moving toward their own ends!

They also note that Ms Gordillo has a knack of co-opting reforms to serve her own ends.

The Wahaha story shows how capitalists under pressure, for their own ends, will play the nationalist card.

And it is encouraging organisations of all kinds to adapt innovations from the consumer world for their own ends.

Who can blame Harry, after meeting so many people who would use him and his fame for their own ends?

I let them use you for their own ends,