• He also used the leaking of the report as an excuse to aim for the moral high ground.

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  • If in the past, both American and Israeli policy-makers interested in engaging Damascus have made ending Syria's alliance with Iran a central goal of their proposed engagement, Kerry dismissed such an aim as unrealistic.

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  • All three matches were played in wet and wild conditions which hindered the free-running, open style they play, but Claassens insists that cannot be used as an excuse as they aim for a win that would see them leapfrog fourth-placed Sarries.

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  • Thus far, short-selling serves as more of an insurance policy for AIM than a big moneymaker.

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  • He believed the GOP should aim for as broad an electoral coalition as possible.

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  • Mr Sarkozy has treated the crisis as an opportunity to advance his long-cherished aim of beefing up the euro group as a potential political counterweight to the European Central Bank.

    ECONOMIST: Angela Merkel

  • Mass murder was not actually an aim of the system, as it was in Nazi Germany, but the imperatives of forced industrialisation, combined with the stigmatisation of those arrested, made it possible to impose inhuman work conditions which invariably killed many.

    ECONOMIST: Soviet Russia

  • Their real aim was to put us in as an example ahead of their clear objective of stealing yet another election.

    CNN: Zimbabwe activists fined for watching Arab Spring videos

  • For most of them, such as John Wells, an Oxford friend, the main aim was to puncture pomposity and make people laugh.

    ECONOMIST: Obituary

  • The coalition's leaders, at least, seem to have grasped that it must behave not as an occupying army but as a partner, whose aim is to build up the local forces that will ultimately ensure Afghanistan's security.

    ECONOMIST: The war in Afghanistan

  • He is an essential part of our plans in the years ahead as we aim to move up the Super League table.

    BBC: Westerman agrees new Tigers deal

  • Yet, since checking Soviet expansionism and not securing Israel was the US's primary strategic aim, and since the US perceived Saudi Arabia as an ally against Soviet expansionism, the Reagan administration pushed the sale forward against Israel's strenuous objections.

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  • Was it an oversight, or did the junta aim to use the incidents as a pretext for clamping down?

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  • Pennant, who has struggled to make an impact since his summer move from Birmingham City, took aim as the ball sat up perfectly and sent a stunning dipping volley beyond the outstretched arm of Cech.

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  • An immediate aim will be to influence the congressional election due on March 10th, as well as the presidential vote.

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  • Future versions will aim to turn Stephenson's shared fictional world, known as Foreworld, into an open-ended virtual environment through which players can adventure.

    BBC: Sword-fighting game hits funding target

  • In essence, the matadores aim to impress the crowd and jury with daring and graceful moves as close to an aggressive, fighting bull as possible.

    BBC: Bullfighting in Catalonia: The death of Barcelona��s ring

  • Ms Behrens also says the Avanti proposal would contradict an earlier referendum which made it part of the Swiss constitution to aim to transfer as much freight transport as possible to rail and not to disturb the Alpine landscape for transport.

    BBC: St Gotthard tunnel fire

  • Ideally, the Russians should also be persuaded to join an undertaking that would aim to bring peace not just to Chechnya but to the Caucasus as a whole.

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  • Mr Tilbrook claimed that it was not certain that the English Democrats would have selected Mr Davies to stand again as he had not followed party policy during his term of office in promoting its main aim to create an English Parliament.

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  • The aim, as the European Council President Herman Van Rompuy said, was "to make the euro an irreversible project".

    BBC: Euro: Merkel gives concessions to Italy and Spain

  • Its aim is to acknowledge the field's contribution to the economy and society, and act as an inspiration for young people seeking a productive career.

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  • It would be waging a continuous campaign of terror whose clear aim is Israel's destruction for again, as Netanyahu said the 1949 armistice lines make war an attractive option for Israel's enemies.

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