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 Kerry said his goal is to withdraw soldiers within four years, starting next summer.
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.
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. Swartz's goal, friends said, wasn't to steal the material for personal gain, but to make it publicly available.
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.
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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.
Democrats and President Barack Obama are sure to challenge both Mr. Ryan's goal and his budget math, since they defend the law as good policy and say it reduces deficits.
Although Mr Bush's ultimate goal is energy independence, he would presumably prefer to be dependent on ethanol from friendly countries such as Brazil and Colombia than on oil from hostile places like Iran and Venezuela.
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This is an ambitious goal, but Mr Carpenter has the right credentials: he is the winner of the two most recent Loebner prizes, awarded in an annual competition in which human judges try to distinguish between other humans and chatbots in a series of typed conversations.
By 2011, as consumer Web IPO-mania grew in advance of the Facebook IPO, Mr. Mason began saying his goal was to make Groupon the Amazon.com Inc.
While Mr. Erdogan told diplomats his goal was to promote education, Turkish academics say the move would enable him to handpick rectors and swamp the board with political henchmen.
In looking at the letters and talking to Mr. Gingrich and his attorney, it was clear that the goal of these letters was to have the complaints against Mr. Gingrich dismissed.
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