• The two newly promoted clubs, Fulham and Nottingham Forest, will have survival as their main aim in what could be a hotly contested bottom end of the table.

    BBC: Arsenal Ladies target more glory

  • "You don't have to restore brain cells to restore sleep, " said Dr Walker who described their aim as "jump-starting" the system.

    BBC: Boosting sleep 'may slow memory rot'

  • Ferrari, Mercedes and Force India, who have upped their game as they aim to secure sixth place in the constructors' championship, shared the next three rows.

    BBC: Sebastian Vettel beats Lewis Hamilton to Abu Dhabi pole

  • Active ETFs seem not to justify their existence as tools that aim at enabling investors to access returns superior to that of investing in passively managed instruments at lower cost.

    FORBES: Active Equity ETFs Flunk Out

  • 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

  • Samaranch, whose father was president of the IOC from 1980 to 2001, says the Spanish capital will look for a "combination of vitality and reliability" as the bid team aim to improve on their third place in the ballot to host the 2012 Games.

    BBC: Olympic 2016 hopefuls submit bids

  • Good intentions, as usual: the main aim is to stop bosses dodging social-security payments by falsely labelling their staff as self-employed.

    ECONOMIST: Germany

  • Last year I ran a selection of the work and thought it would be good idea to do so again as the project still has many years to run, their aim being to continue for 24 years.

    BBC: 24 hours, 24 photographers, 24 years

  • Retailers will leave those companies to their battle for market share and aim to sell as many of the rival products as they can.

    FORBES: What Election Uncertainty? Retailers Expect Best Holiday Season In Five Years

  • 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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  • Their nationalists' true aim is not just power as such, but recognition of identity: hence Mr Pujol's outcry over the otherwise trivial recent decision of the centre that car number-plates would not, in future, show where the car is from.

    ECONOMIST: A survey of Spain

  • Viacom and Disney aim to use their television shows to promote products such as CDs and clothing.

    ECONOMIST: Big media firms are quietly building empires overseas

  • Their assault on Mexican bloggers seemingly takes aim at controlling cyberspace as well.

    CNN: STORY HIGHLIGHTS

  • If destabilisation is their aim, they will quickly stir things up, just as they did in East Timor when the territory voted last year to split from Indonesia.

    ECONOMIST: Wahid��s big test

  • Professor Marshall now plans more studies in patients already suffering from AMD in one eye with the aim of saving the sight in their better eye for as long as possible.

    BBC: Laser 'cure' for blindness tested

  • As well as offering higher compensation payouts, the new rules aim to give most claimants their money much faster than before - within seven days and the rest within 20 days.

    BBC: Savings protection limit increases to ?85,000

  • When Adam Smith pointed out that, if people want dinner, they look not to the benevolence of the butcher, brewer or baker, but to their regard for their own interest, his aim was not to portray social interaction as mean and narrow.

    ECONOMIST: The benevolence of self-interest | The

  • Instead, we aim to focus on groups such as those commuting in the morning and on their way home at night.

    BBC: Playing games with Wap

  • "As well as helping young people to access the curriculum and learn alongside their peers, this project will aim to ease their transition from school into employment or further or higher education, " said the minister.

    BBC: Hi-tech help for special needs

  • "As more hardware companies announce plans to incorporate Intel's Thunderbolt technology into their products, we aim to create quality accessories that take advantage of Thunderbolt's blazing fast speeds and other benefits, " said Martin Avilla, general manager of Belkin's core business unit.

    ENGADGET: Belkin upgrades its Thunderbolt Express Dock before it's even available

  • The aim is to generate as many votes as possible, so all actions are dictated by their potential vote-getting capacity (or vote-repelling capacity).

    FORBES: Romney and the Middle East Blowup

  • There's nothing wrong with going to the gym of course, but the aim is to encourage everyone to build physical activity into their daily lives, such as by walking, cycling, swimming, gardening or doing any sport they enjoy.

    BBC: Sedentary lifestyle can kill

  • The caps did achieve their direct aim: medical-malpractice claims fell sharply in number, and awards dropped just as sharply in value.

    ECONOMIST: Tort reform

  • He says he and his colleagues aim to "identify the winners" and hold on to them through market ups and downs as their businesses grow.

    WSJ: Funds to Fine-Tune Technology Exposure

  • Especially abroad, American hotels aim to provide a secure oasis of familiar comforts and food, just as British hotels did for their own people in the days of empire.

    ECONOMIST: Kemmons Wilson

  • Their aim is to achieve highest scientific standards by carrying out a rigorous peer review that is, as a minimum requirement, supposed to be able to identify fundamental methodological errors or false claims.

    FORBES: Editor Resigns Over Global Warming Paper, Blames

  • As they see one another looking at great universities and trying to aim for great financial aid packages, then their peers, their friends also say, 'If you can do that, I can, too.

    CNN: Pairing up to take the pain out of college search

  • As well as academic tests, there will be questions on how much pupils enjoy their schools and their classroom environment, with the aim of producing a more rounded picture of the quality of education.

    BBC: Schools can measure themselves against Pisa tests

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