In sum, compassionate conservatism looks much more like an ambitious agenda with a real aim than a meaningless slogan.
Given that a usual aim of a tax is to increase revenues this makes the FTT rather a bad tax.
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It is a natural aim for us to have a mature technology ten years from now.
But the two men also have a domestic aim: to persuade Mr Barak's Labour party that they both truly seek a peace deal and that the party must therefore stay in the coalition.
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Moreover, exercising real political leadership on climate change would also re-invigorate the EU project, giving it a new aim and purpose, and helping to reconnect its institutions with its increasingly jaded half-a-billion citizens, inspiring them with a new sense of enthusiasm and common cause.
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On Friday, Mr Berlusconi told supporters there was "a subversive aim" of bringing down his government.
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This operation has frozen Egypt's peace efforts and has directed them towards a new aim: fighting terrorism.
Banzi noted it was completed at least a year ahead of a planned government project with a similar aim.
Saving the forest that is left should therefore be considered a modest aim.
Today, the notion that stability is a realistic aim is even more far-fetched.
Haiti's opposition parties have condemned the violence but share with the rebels a common aim: to force the president's resignation.
Making sure that all dealers pay uniform wholesale prices for cars and trucks is a big aim of state franchise laws.
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Competitors for the Gordon Bennett Cup have a simple aim - to travel as far as possible from the launch site.
FirstBuy has a similar aim for first-time buyers, but instead of paying rent, owners take out an equity loan to finance the balance.
Drawing Mr Qaddafi into the West's embrace, and keeping him there, has been a longstanding aim of Britain's, and other Western countries', foreign policy.
It has devoted three strategy papers in six years to this topic, without dispelling the impression that it is still searching for a clear aim.
Like its predecessors, the XG is designed to give the shooter a offset aim point to counteract the environmental conditions that would impact bullet trajectory.
Though the Fed has massively increased the monetary base in a stated aim to stimulate the economy, the totality of its actions is having the opposite effect.
It is a bold aim, given that the figure was over 250, 000 in the 12 months to June 2011, higher than when the prime minister came to power.
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But though clamping down on tax dodgers was not a priority of his 2001-06 government, it is a stated aim of this one (the treasury needs revenue to stop the budget deficit exploding).
The British guide to what the French really mean has a narrower aim: it was written specifically for officials attending the meetings of the European Union's Council of Ministers, where diplomats haggle over legal texts.
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Prof Majid Ezzati, who also worked on the research, said a major aim of the study was to find out what was being done to help people in different places and what could be done differently.
The report said a key aim of government policy should therefore be to encourage people to remain active, engage in regular exercise and refrain from behaviours that could have a detrimental effect on their health, such as binge drinking, smoking and overeating.
"All these thing come and go, of course it will always be and always has been a historic aim of the French in particular, other countries certainly, to try and chip away at the financial dominance of the city, " Johnson told CNN.
It has been a stated aim of successive governments to get the number of exclusions down and figures published by the Department for Education (DfE) show that since 1997 permanent exclusions from schools in England have more than halved from 12, 300 to 5, 740.
Unlike chess-players, though, all the participants can win in this game, it is hoped, if they agree on a common aim: peace between Turkey and Armenia, which would help to thaw the frozen conflict between Armenia and Azerbaijan over the (mainly Armenian) territory of Nagorno-Karabakh.
The Darden school at the University of Virginia launches its GEMBA in August this year with a clear aim to bring students to the five key markets they feel will figure most prominently in shaping business in the coming century: China, India, Brazil, the US and Europe.
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