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单词 aim
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aim
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Word forms: aims , aiming , aimed
1. verb B1+
If you aim for something or aim to do something, you plan or hope to achieve it.
He is aiming for the 100 metres world record. [V + for/at]
Businesses will have to aim at long-term growth. [V for/at n/-ing]
...an appeal which aims to raise funds for children with special needs. [VERB to-infinitive]
Synonyms: try for, want, seek, work for  
2. countable noun [oft with poss] B1+
The aim of something that you do is the purpose for which you do it or the result that it is intended to achieve.
The aim of the festival is to increase awareness of Hindu culture and traditions. [+ of]
...a research programme that has largely failed to achieve its principal aims.
Synonyms: intention, end, point, plan  
3. passive verb B2
If an action or plan is aimed at achieving something, it is intended or planned to achieve it.
The new measures are aimed at tightening existing sanctions. [be V-ed at n/v-ing]
...talks aimed at ending the war. [VERB-ed]
4. verb
If you aim to do something, you decide or want to do it. [US, informal]
Are you aiming to visit the gardens? [VERB to-infinitive]
I didn't aim to get caught. [VERB to-infinitive]
Synonyms: mean, attempt, propose, intend  
5. verb [usually passive] B2
If your actions or remarks are aimed at a particular person or group, you intend that the person or group should notice them and be influenced by them.
The stark message was aimed at the heads of some of Britain's biggest banks. [be V-ed + at]
Advertising aimed at children should be curbed. [VERB-ed]
6. verb
If you aim at someone or something, or aim a weapon or object at them, you point it towards them before firing or throwing it.
He was aiming the rifle at Wade. [VERB noun + at]
...a missile aimed at the arms factory. [VERB-ed]
I didn't know I was supposed to aim at the same spot all the time. [VERB + at]
[Also VERB]
Synonyms: point, level, train, direct  
7. singular noun [oft poss NOUN]
Your aim is your skill or action in pointing a weapon or other object at its target.
He stood with the gun in his right hand and his left hand steadying his aim.
Synonyms: aiming, directing, sight  
8. verb
If you aim a kick or punch at someone, you try to kick or punch them.
They aimed kicks at his shins. [VERB noun preposition/adverb]
[Also VERB noun]
9. take aim phrase
When you take aim, you point a weapon or object at someone or something, before firing or throwing it.
She had spotted a man with a shotgun taking aim.
10. take aim at phrase
If you take aim at someone or something, you criticize them strongly. [US]
Republican strategists are taking particular aim at Democratic senators.
Collocations:
aim an attack at
They have also mounted attacks aimed at separating the troops from their protective vehicles.
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Such networks can also be quite sensitive to targeted attacks aimed at fracturing the network quickly.
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Additionally, it serves as a technique in itself to block attacks aimed at the face.
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That day and the next, she fought off repeated torpedo plane attacks aimed for the flattops.
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aim the camera
Some camera phones use convex mirrors to allow the user to correctly aim the camera while taking a self-portrait.
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He got special effects by aiming his camera at the early morning sun.
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Reporters scurry busily about, aiming their cameras at excited groups.
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aimed directly at
But the launching ramps had to be aimed directly at their targets.
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Two of the four programmes are aimed directly at schoolchildren, with the others aimed at educating teachers about personal finance issues.
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The proceeds of a windfall tax would not be hypothecated, aimed directly at helping poorer families.
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Only when they are momentarily aimed directly at the audience do the lights - harsh and blinding - become irritating.
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As such, it was aimed directly at scholarship level students the top 10% to 20% by ability.
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aimed mainly at
One part of the block had flats for sale aimed mainly at young families.
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The changes were aimed mainly at catching private equity groups who took advantage of the low rates when selling assets.
Times, Sunday Times
But the deals, aimed mainly at first-time buyers, are expensive compared with those for borrowers with larger deposits, which are at record lows.
Times, Sunday Times
Fears were aimed mainly at people with a history of allergies in their families.
The Sun
It would be aimed mainly at shy people who find it difficult to start relationships - or those who want to give a shaky romance one last try before opting out.
The Sun
aimed primarily at
That increase would be aimed primarily at those earning more than $250,000 a year.
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Its products are aimed primarily at the scientific market and the cameras are so powerful that they can take pictures of sub-atomic particles.
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They seem to be aimed primarily at literature students or other writers, rather than your average paying customer.
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A similar source of help can be found in retreat or counseling centers that are aimed primarily at helping pastors.
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The books, fiction and non-fiction, are aimed primarily at the 12 million adults who have a reading level at or below that expected of a 13-year-old.
Times, Sunday Times
aimed solely at
Policies aimed solely at restricting lower-paid immigration, typically involving huge bureaucracy for businesses, are unlikely to work.
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It continues to recommend the schemes to buyers of properties worth 500,000 or more, indicating that the plans are no longer aimed solely at the very rich.
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Health-conscious hippies need not cheer, though: it's aimed solely at patients with chronic pain.
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Initially it had a very limited print run and was aimed solely at industry insiders to enable them to give advice to their customers.
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aimed specifically at
The charity has launched a new website aimed specifically at young people which can be viewed on mobiles.
The Sun
Democrats also want to increase spending, perhaps with some money aimed specifically at the moribund housing market.
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At present, jurors who break the rules can be jailed for contempt of court but the new rules are aimed specifically at use of the internet.
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Indeed, such crimes could be aimed specifically at highearning players.
The Sun
They have 100 vacancies with construction, engineering and building management suppliers — and the placements are aimed specifically at the unemployed.
The Sun
aimed squarely at
It's aimed squarely at students and twentysomethings, and prices cover entry to all the events.
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But this summer sees the opening of a stylish new mid-price option aimed squarely at families.
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Products aimed squarely at the contract market (corporate, hospitality, public sector) sit alongside flights of fancy.
Times, Sunday Times
This blurs the outlines of his argument and turns a work that should be aimed squarely at a general educated audience into a quasi-academic tome.
The Times Literary Supplement
Maybe the car had been fitted with an innovative, customisable, multitune indicator system, aimed squarely at the ringtone generation.
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basic aim
He stated that the experiment represents a reconception of our project's basic aim.
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The basic aim was to reduce access to memory as much as possible, using internal high-performance registers for most instructions.
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The basic aim of the foundations was to assist composers by commissioning new compositions and underwriting the cost of their performance.
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The basic aim of agricultural policy in the mid-1980s, with regard to both crop and livestock production, was self- sufficiency.
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To fulfil this basic aim, the bill establishes a series of concrete, diversied and scheduled measures.
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broad aim
The broad aim of slaughterhouse regulations should be to keep animals' suffering to a minimum, and there should be no ambiguity about it.
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The party's broad aim was a decentralisation of power.
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The party's broad aim was to achieve a balance of power in one or more parliaments and to exercise it responsibly in line with policies determined by membership.
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It focused on three broad aims.
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While the original broad aims of sieve theory still are largely unachieved, there have been some partial successes, especially in combination with other number theoretic tools.
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campaign aim
The campaign aims to inspire 500,000 young entrepreneurs to start up in business through partnerships and mentoring.
The Sun
Positive ads, which usually start at the beginning of a campaign aim at introducing or reintroducing a candidate through reinforcing his or her positive image and qualities.
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The association's campaign aims to persuade the next 5% to 10% of would-be entrepreneurs to take the plunge.
Times, Sunday Times
The campaign aims to encourage people to look for winning tickets they may have lost or forgotten about, with 9million of prizes still unclaimed.
The Sun
However, when several individuals mounted a phone campaign aimed against me, the board did not continue their support.
Christianity Today
careful aim
Brown and yellow parabolas were projected to right and left toward these receivers, but very often without the careful aim which made for cleanly living.
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Line regiments fired in volleys, but skirmishers fired at will, taking careful aim at targets.
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A major disadvantage was that escaping hot gases from the breech would strike the face of any trooper who took careful aim.
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Soldiers inside the boats then opened fire, taking careful aim to hit the resisting passengers and forcing the activists to disperse, enabling the soldiers to board from ladders.
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central aim
A central aim would be to enlist, and neutralise, leading critics.
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Weaning the world off oil and making it more environmentally sustainable will be a central aim.
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It was for most of the last century a central aim of social democratic parties to take public control of the commanding heights of the economy.
Times, Sunday Times
Wider share ownership, a central aim of her reforms, has largely unwound.
Times, Sunday Times
Results are not the central aim of this youthful group.
The Star (South Africa)
chief aim
His chief aim was to cut spending and reduce imports, however, this came at a cost as unemployment increased sharply.
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His chief aim was the popularization of knowledge and the elevation of the masses.
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The chief aim was to achieve strong and sounding lines, magnificent epithets, and powerful declamation.
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The fort reminds the visitor of the historical period when to hold or capture such forts used to be the chief aim of the contending hill states.
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Yet the chief aim of the project, as far as adults were concerned, was to increase the amount of serious reading and thinking done by people in the community.
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declare an aim
He declared the aim of affordable housing 'any government's moral responsibility'.
The Sun
The prime minister has declared the aim of cutting annual net migration to less than 100,000 by 2015.
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Its declared aim in doing so was to shift the emphasis from its founder to its branches and employees.
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It has received more than £1 million of charity money since 2013 yet fails to live up to its declared aim of defending global human rights.
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It was the declared aim of our illustrious leaders to build thousands, if not millions, of houses to make them more affordable.
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educational aim
They usually have an educational aim, introducing new audiences to different audiovisual works through an organized and prepared program of screenings.
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The educational aim of the project was to provide valuable hands-on experience to university students within a real and demanding space project.
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A registered charitable trust with educational aims, it has various outreach and community archaeology projects running alongside its commercial work.
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The hermetic poets pursue the ideal of a pure poesy, an essential composition without educational aims.
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He described his educational aims as being the cure of souls first, moral development the second and intellectual development the third.
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explicit aim
The relocation of central government functions would have an explicit aim of supporting innovation in public service delivery and private sector product development.
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I introduced a priority list with the explicit aim of getting more female candidates into our key marginal seats.
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The talks, with the explicit aim of helping the development of poorer countries, tried to break out of the old model where the most powerful economies set the terms.
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On the contrary, owner-occupation has been an explicit aim of governments of both parties, and tax privileges apply to it.
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An explicit aim was to intensify the exchange between these two research communities.
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guidelines aim to
The safety and wellbeing of colleagues and customers remains the highest priority and these guidelines aim to support everyone in the industry.
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The guidelines aim to curb the health damage caused by binge drinking at a young age.
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Practice guidelines aim to reduce unnecessary radiation exposure, which increases cancer risk in proportion to the amount of radiation received.
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initial aim
Their initial aim was to sell 500 adult tickets, but that had to double to prevent them going bankrupt.
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This meant a smaller plane and a modest initial aim.
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Your initial aim to save your family soon transcends into delving deeper into alien territory.
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That studys initial aim was to determine why this site was so large and why some of the individual semisubterranean housepits were also unusually big.
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Her initial aim was to become an artist, but she turned to play writing.
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initiative aims to
The initiative aims to secure at least £67 million in the first six years, and up to £100 million by 2030.
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The £2bn initiative aims to encourage employers to offer six-month work placements to 16 to 24-year-olds claiming universal credit.
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A game premised on universal accessibility, a pioneering initiative aims to harness its urban appeal.
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The initiative aims to train youngsters for roles in government, civil society and the private sector.
Times, Sunday Times
The initiative aims to teach academics and business people a series of leadership skills.
The Sun
interventions aimed at
It seems that public-health interventions aimed at adolescents are likely to succeed when they focus on values important to young people: in this case, feeling socially conscious and autonomous.
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The true value from early interventions aimed at youths comes from the preventative aspect.
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In the 17th century, city planning was reduced to a few specific interventions aimed at regularising the streets and reconfiguring some of the plazas.
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The health forecasts include historical and future health trends and incorporate policy and programmatic interventions aimed at improving population health.
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Multifactorial interventions aimed at both physicians and patients can reduce inappropriate prescription of antibiotics.
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legislation aimed at
More legislation aimed at improving business conditions and standards of living are expected to similarly benefit insurance concerns.
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Its legislation aimed at reducing red tape that requires smaller businesses only to file abbreviated accounts again creates problems in assessing risk.
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It was created in order to circumvent governmental legislation aimed at forcing young motorcycle riders off the road.
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He also championed legislation aimed at breaking the code of silence by deterring intimidation of those who cooperate with law enforcement officers.
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The creation of the database was in response to legislation aimed at reducing the incidence of financial crimes.
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legitimate aim
Having established that the provision had a legitimate aim, it fell to the union to justify it.
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The legitimate aim of the legislation was the protection of the rights and freedoms of the claimants.
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Section 33(2) pursued a legitimate aim and reflected a coherent and proportionate approach to second appeals.
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But, taken together, the twin aims would satisfy the legitimate aim requirement.
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Interference with their rights had to comply with the principle of lawfulness and pursue a legitimate aim by reasonably proportionate means.
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long-term aim
Quite a few people let homes here, knowing that prices will appreciate, with the long-term aim of retiring to the area themselves.
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But removing the controls was deemed so risky that it featured only as a long-term aim of the new government, to be achieved cautiously and step by step.
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The vehicles will emit only water instead of exhaust fumes, and represent the first steps towards a long-term aim to switch all motorists from petrol and diesel to renewable fuels.
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Long-term aim to reduce prison population.
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She was a horsewoman with a long-term aim of representing her country.
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main aim
The main aim is to help the franchisor protect the reputation and integrity of its brand.
Times, Sunday Times (2006)
His main aim in life was to improve the wellbeing of mankind by winning acceptance for unconventional scientific ideas to which he devoted detailed study.
Times, Sunday Times (2012)
The main aim is to secure a big international push against tax dodgers.
Times, Sunday Times (2013)
The main aim is to boost economic growth so that the country finally can make real inroads into its huge unemployment problem.
Times, Sunday Times (2006)
The patient requested the surgery, and the main aim of the surgery was cosmesis.
Hayato Mitamura, Toshiyuki Oshitari, Ryuta Kimoto, Jiro Yotsukura, Kaoru Asanagi, Takayuki Baba, Yoko Takahashi, Takashi Kishimoto, Shuichi Yamamoto 2011, 'A Case of Squamous Cell Carcinoma of Conjunctiva as Initial Sign of Systemic Cancers', Case Reports in Ophthalmological Medicine
measures aimed at
The proposal was one of a host of measures aimed at refreshing the country's intellectual property laws to 'turbo-charge' the economy.
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Loan guarantees to car-finance firms will be one of a raft of measures aimed at stimulating demand.
Times, Sunday Times
Interim measures aimed at helping recruitment until the problems are resolved are costing a further 1 million per month.
Times, Sunday Times
Ministers have brought in 46 different measures aimed at tackling the youth crime crisis.
The Sun
He signalled that a series of measures aimed at lowincome families were on the way.
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move aims to
The move aims to address concerns about how it selects funds on its influential list.
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The move aims to cover the gap between annual outgoings of €11 million and income from ticket sales and other sources which rarely tops €8 million.
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The move aims to boost the financial technology sector, which will include a 100 million extension of funding to start-up companies.
Times, Sunday Times
The move aims to save 1billion this year.
The Sun
The move aims to stop firsttime buyers being pushed out of the market by wealthy investors.
The Sun
noble aim
But it takes that noble aim too far.
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It was a noble aim.
The Sun
It's a noble aim, certainly.
Times, Sunday Times
A noble aim, but did the volatility of the region not give them pause?
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Both are noble aims, but they may sometimes pull in different directions.
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original aim
Walking was our original aim, but there we were again, lingering at that bus stop.
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Its original aim was to help university leavers understand the increasingly complex graduate job market and identify the country's most prestigious and sought after employers.
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He agrees that the system has moved a long way from its original aim to be a simple and swift way of resolving workplace disputes that ordinary people could use.
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The original aim had been to publish early this year.
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Her original aim was merely to paint, 'but one day the mayor came round and asked us when we were going to open the cafe'.
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overall aim
The overall aim should be to change mentality.
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That's the overall aim of everyone in the squad.
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We shouldn't now be focusing on goals such as weight loss and personal running records, but an overall aim of being healthy and resilient enough to fight infection.
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The overall aim would be for higher revenue per household through deals, such as a flat $20 fee to allow customers to record programmes on multiple channels at the same time.
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The overall aim must not.
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political aim
Now its political aim came into focus.
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No political aim was achieved in that war.
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In their eyes he stood for political aims that they regarded as a threat to their control over the key political areas in the territory.
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What matters most are the political aims and outlook informing the protests.
Times, Sunday Times
His academic credentials were weak - he only just passed the maths entrance test - but his political aims were clear.
Times, Sunday Times
primary aim
The report set out only to examine the cause of the disaster, with the primary aim of finding safety lessons for general aviation.
Times, Sunday Times (2014)
The accounts emphasise that the charity's primary aim in its first 15 months was to recruit staff and establish itself as a legal entity.
Times, Sunday Times (2011)
Surely this should be a primary aim, not a feeble stumbling block?
Lashford, Stephanie The Residue Report - an action plan for safer food (1988)
Your primary aim should always be get away.
Lamplugh, Diana & Sterwin, Diana & Nottidge, Pamela Survive the Nine to Five - a woman's guide to working well (1989)
principal aim
Even some of those involved in setting up the carbon markets fear they will fail in their principal aim of cutting carbon emissions.
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Those seeking to invest in the sector should first establish their principal aim.
Times, Sunday Times
He added that they needed to 'keep fighting' to achieve their principal aim of 'eliminating the waste of good fish'.
Times, Sunday Times
Quangos are not allowed to use public money 'to lobby with the principal aim of altering government policy'.
Times, Sunday Times
My principal aim was to ensure that the political cycle, with a fixed-term parliament, did not coincide with the concluding part of the complex negotiations.
Times, Sunday Times
project aimed
The project aimed to recreate a common type of collision, a forced landing, to study the mechanics of a plane crash in real time.
The Sun (2012)
The project aimed to show that doctors can be recruited from a more diverse social background.
Times, Sunday Times (2008)
In any project aiming at long-term sustainability it is vital to engage young people.
Times, Sunday Times (2016)
They have also kept open A&E units and instituted a project aimed at providing free meals for primary school pupils.
Times, Sunday Times (2007)
proposal aims to
The proposal aims to ease parental dissatisfaction over lack of school choice.
Times, Sunday Times
The council said the proposal aims to protect plants and wildlife and will go out to public consultation.
The Sun
While a handful already have a pharmacist working as part of the clinical team, today's proposal aims to make this routine.
Times, Sunday Times
The $10.6bn (8.5bn) proposal aims to close the giant network of jails, which houses 10,000 inmates.
Times, Sunday Times
The proposal aims to avoid the constitutional issues faced by school voucher programs.
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research aimed
This research aimed to investigate the copolymerization of ethylene and various 1-olefins.
Mingkwan Wannaborworn, Bunjerd Jongsomjit, Piyasan Praserthdam 2011, 'Observation of Different Catalytic Activity of Various 1-Olefins during Ethylene/1-Olefin Copolymerization with Homogeneous Metallocene Catalysts', Molecules
This research aimed at investigating the implicit and explicit views of the evaluation proposed by the coursebook in use.
Cláudia Hilsdorf Rocha, Leny Costa, Kleber Aparecido da Silva 2006, 'Inglês para crianças do Ensino Fundamental: visões implícitas da avaliação proposta por um livro didático e as crenças dos professores', Revista Brasileira de Linguística Aplicada
This research aimed to determine the effectivity of duck for snail control.
Anis Nurwidayati, Jastal Jastal, Gunawan Gunawan, Murni Murni 2016, 'Efektivitas Pelepasan Itik dalam Pengendalian Keong Oncomelania hupensis lindoensis di Daerah Fokus Schistosomiasis Napu, Kabupaten Poso, Sulawesi Tengah', Bulletin of Health Research
This research aimed at describing the correlation between students' internet literacy and their passive vocabulary size.
Riza Weganofa, Rizky Lutviana 2018, 'The Correlation between Internet Literacy and Passive Vocabulary Size', Lingua Cultura
This research aimed to verify the attitudes of the traffic-psychologic evaluation process.
Rodolfo Augusto Matteo Ambiel, Jocemara Ferreira Mognon, Fabiana Mitiko Ishizawa 2016, 'Attitudes toward psychological assessment of candidates for obtaining and renewing driver's license', Estudos Interdisciplinares em Psicologia
scheme aims to
With a million 16 to 24-year-olds looking for work, the scheme aims to find long-term employment for them.
The Sun
The scheme aims to promote the pleasure of reading.
Times, Sunday Times
The scheme aims to give people aged from 11 to 19 an understanding of the world of work.
The Sun
The scheme aims to support up to 40,000 new businesses over the next two years.
The Sun
The scheme aims to cover the initial costs of installing energy-saving technology.
The Sun
sole aim
Their sole aim was to get through the muck and get onto solid ground once more.
Max Hastings Nemesis: The Battle for Japan, 194445 (2007)
The sole aim of a metaphor is to call up a visual image.
Goshgarian, Gary Exploring language (6th edn) (1995)
specific aim
You protest that you're flying hand-baggage-only with the specific aim of making a quick getaway at the other end.
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Each guest has a wellness programme catering to a specific aim, whether weight loss, detox or improving flexibility and muscle strength.
Times, Sunday Times
But it's even sadder to train up your only-averagely academic son from the age of eight with the specific aim of him going for you.
Times, Sunday Times
I suspected they were trying to redact as much as possible with the specific aim of inflating the costs in order to suppress publication.
Times, Sunday Times
Consequently, last autumn they looked to put together a gymnastics programme with the specific aim of working on balance.
Times, Sunday Times
stated aim
But this performance bodes well for his stated aim of preserving margins by passing on higher costs to customers.
Times, Sunday Times
The grandly stated aim of this programme was to illustrate the hardships of long-term unemployment.
Times, Sunday Times
Its stated aim: to one day be taken seriously as an artist in its own right.
Times, Sunday Times
Now, he would be wise to concentrate on his other stated aim of completing a career grand slam.
Times, Sunday Times
His stated aim of becoming the world's best sounded like preciousness before; it smacked of common sense afterwards.
Times, Sunday Times
strategic aim
A statement said that it was 'consistent with our long-term strategic aim' of developing the centre and 'fits well with our ambitions for growth'.
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It was a sound strategic aim but operations came perilously close to farce.
Times, Sunday Times
Some artists seem to approach each album with a clear strategic aim: to make it sound as different as possible from the last one.
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The strategic aim must be to shrink the company's influence.
Times, Sunday Times
The strategic aim must be plainly stated and enforced: tax cheats should be denied their hiding places.
Times, Sunday Times
strategy aims to
The strategy aims to increase by one third the number of people donating organs by 2020 through 'radically changing' public attitudes.
Times, Sunday Times
A talent strategy aims to promote employees into management roles.
Times, Sunday Times
The strategy aims to improve efficiency and increase annual profit by 500 million within five years and to return 600 million to shareholders within three years.
Times, Sunday Times
The strategy aims to create an urban village which reduces urban sprawl that would otherwise place pressure on natural environments in the green wedges to the precinct's east.
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study aimed
This study aimed to explore the nascent resistome in antibiotically-naïve infant gut microbiomes, using a combination of metagenomic approaches.
Fiona Fouhy, Lesley A Ogilvie, Brian V Jones, R Paul Ross, Anthony C Ryan, Eugene M Dempsey, Gerald F Fitzgerald, Catherine Stanton, Paul D Cotter 2014, 'Identification of aminoglycoside and β-lactam resistance genes from within an infant gut functional metagenomic library.', PLoS ONE
This study aimed to identify morphological and mechanical characteristics of the human triceps surae aponeuroses.
Xiyao Shan, Shun Otsuka, Tomiko Yakura, Munekazu Naito, Takashi Nakano, Yasuo Kawakami 2019, 'Morphological and mechanical properties of the human triceps surae aponeuroses taken from elderly cadavers: Implications for muscle-tendon interactions', PLOS ONE
The current study aimed to investigate the bifunctional activity of a novel fusion recombinant.
Md Shofiul Azam, Dianzhen Yu, Na Liu, Aibo Wu 2019, 'Degrading Ochratoxin A and Zearalenone Mycotoxins Using a Multifunctional Recombinant Enzyme', Toxins
This study aimed to evaluate the preventive effect of clofibrate on neonatal jaundice in term neonates.
Yadollah Zahed Pasha, Sadroddin Mahdipour, Mousa Ahmadpour-Kacho, Ali Bijani, Maryam Taheri 2015, 'Preventive Effect of Clofibrate on Neonatal Hyperbilirubinemia', Caspian Journal of Pediatrics
The study aimed to investigate patterns of spatial and temporal variability of mobile macroinvertebrate assemblages associated to coralligenous habitat.
R. BEDINI, L. BONECHI, L. PIAZZI 2014, 'Spatial and temporal variability of mobile macro-invertebrate assemblages associated to coralligenous habitat', Mediterranean Marine Science
talks aimed at
The coalition announcement effectively halts cross-party talks aimed at wider reform of party political funding.
Times, Sunday Times
The twist comes as the pair prepare for late peace talks aimed at resolving their bitter dispute.
The Sun
Talks aimed at forcing a 48-hour limit to the working week collapsed without a deal.
The Sun
Talks aimed at extending the striker's stay have already begun.
The Sun
Talks aimed at averting fresh postal strikes were adjourned last night and resume today.
The Sun
ultimate aim
As the stereotype goes, if you want to succeed, you need to make profit your ultimate aim and be willing to step on people.
Christianity Today
If a deal with his critics had to be struck, it was only done with the ultimate aim of weakening and crushing them.
Times, Sunday Times
The caller's ultimate aim would have been to get you to install malware and spend money on unnecessary software upgrades.
Times, Sunday Times
His trademark strategy was to form partnerships with other tech companies, with the ultimate aim of dominating online advertising revenue.
Times, Sunday Times
There was no attempt to disguise their ultimate aim.
Times, Sunday Times
war aims
It describes the tendency of military and political leaders to inflate war aims, generally (but not always) after early success.
Times, Sunday Times
Negotiation with the enemy will begin to be presented, not as surrender, but as a refinement of our war aims.
Times, Sunday Times
He refused to identify war aims, beyond those of vanquishing the enemy.
Times,Sunday Times
Certainly, the war aims were never widely questioned, and there was never a descent into the civil unrest that manifested itself during earlier wars.
Times,Sunday Times
It must be more transparent to parliament about its war aims, and gain authorisation for them.
Times, Sunday Times
Translations:
Chinese: 目的, 打算
Japanese: 目的, ねらう
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