Some observers think Mr Stoiber's goal is to weaken Mr Merkel so much that he could lead the opposition into coalition with the Social Democrats in 2006.
Once the war was over in Europe, the British voters tossed him out and shortly thereafter India achieved independence, a goal Mr. Churchill had fought hard against all of his life.
No particular shame is felt, for example, over the famous goal Mr Maradona scored with his hand, unseen by the referee, to put England out of the 1986 World Cup which Argentina went on to win.
Mr. Romney said his goal is for all women to have access to contraception a claim Mr. Obama said is false but he largely stuck to economic issues, citing the number of women who have lost jobs in the last four years and telling a story of how he sought out to hire more women.
Mr Kerry said his goal is to withdraw soldiers within four years, starting next summer.
In Taiwan, says Mr Huang, the goal of every banker is to know his clients so well he can be a matchmaker for their children.
Mr Gormez's goal is to weed out those unsavoury texts (on restricting women's freedoms, for instance) that, in Mr Gormez's words, obscure the original values of Islam.
Mr Levin's goal is to boost the productivity of drug discovery by 50%, which would lead to many more new drugs coming on to the market each year.
Thirty states now require some form of ID at the polls, and one goal of Mr. Holder's attack is to intimidate other states that want to toughen their laws.
Mr Salmond said the goal was to achieve progress on a "year to year" basis, and accused Labour councils of being responsible for most of the decline in teacher numbers in Scotland.
With a sleek online storefront where customers can book fitting appointments, the goal, Mr. Ng says, is to give tailors better working conditions and better business by catering to Hong Kong's pool of young and Web-savvy expatriates, in part through its social mission of hiring youth with drug addictions to serve as tailor apprentices.
Mr. Hollande has said his goal would be to heal rifts in France and turn a page on what he described as Mr. Sarkozy's "divisive" style.
Mr. Obama's goal was to get two potent bureaucracies in motion producing command-and-obey rules.
Indeed, destroying Ms Tymoshenko, his erstwhile orange colleague, seems now to be Mr Yushchenko's only goal.
Mr. Kurzweil's goal is to enable Google's search engine to read, hear and understand human semantics.
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Mr. GIULIANI: Our goal in Iraq - plain and simple - should be victory in Iraq.
Mr. Swartz's goal, friends said, wasn't to steal the material for personal gain, but to make it publicly available.
To some, Mr Yushchenko's bigger goal to get Ukraine into the European Union looks imperilled by the recent French and Dutch referendums.
Even so, the eventual goal, says Mr Klapmeier, is to create a far more detailed representation of the outside world.
"Our communities have had a huge overlap over the years, and ultimately were all driving towards the same goal, " Mr. Nager says.
Mr. GRIGNON: The goal is how far can we push it but still have it feel like it's always the same character?
Mr Hollande acknowledged that one goal, the release of six French hostages being held in the Sahel, had still not been achieved.
Mr Obama reiterated the US goal of destroying the remnants of al-Qaeda, and said the US had come close to achieving that.
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"China and Israel have both much to gain from enhanced co-operation, and that's our goal, " Mr Netanyahu's spokesman Mark Regev told AFP news agency.
Mr. Obama's goal is to restore billions of dollars to community block grants, a key source of funding for cities, with the new office shepherding the disbursements.
But the officials stressed that Mr. Obama's goal was to create conditions quickly that would allow the U.S. to step back and assume largely a backup role.
This so-called Strategic Arms Reduction (START) follow-on treaty will be ballyhooed as an important step towards the realization of Mr. Obama's goal of a nuclear weapons-free world.
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