at the end of the day

Other aspects include, once those leaders are given temporary powers to represent us—we hand over our sovereignty to them for a temporary period to represent us—they’re constrained by checks and balances, by the rule of law, and by the protection of individual rights in order to ensure that, at the end of the day, our granting to them of our sovereignty as “we, the people,” is temporary and we get to take it back at the end of their term in office.

Scapegoating misses the point: “At the end of the day, what is really causing these fires is the dry conditions,” New York City Emergency Management Commissioner Zach Iscol told me later when I asked about the cause.

“At the end of the day, we are animals; we have senses when we’re in someone’s presence,” Kayla Triviera, a 28-year-old tech worker and part-time TikTokker who’s actively dating in New York City, told me.

"At the end of the day, it's your money, it’s not the government's money, so if you've got any entitlement to a refund then absolutely take it," she said.

“At the end of the day, it is just a game of footy,” he said last month of the prospect of making his union return in the Test arena.