Sentence examples for a high aim from inspiring English sources

Of course, that's a high aim.

But, in a country whose enduring cultural myths include Horatio Alger and the Welfare Queen, the idea that material success is a high aim and primarily a function of hard work is also deeply entrenched and, importantly, politically powerful.

Shrigley's drawings have a higher aim than that.

A writer who can deal with murder, barbarity, and horror — with "tragic elements" — is, Trollope argued, "a greater artist and reaches a higher aim than the writer whose efforts never carry him above the mild walks of everyday life".

But there is a higher aim here, too, Matousek tells me.

Alekhine had written that success in chess required "Firstly, self-knowledge; secondly, a firm comprehension of my opponent's strength and weakness; thirdly, a higher aim –... artistic and scientific accomplishments which accord our chess equal rank with other arts".

If he is half a peg, then aim up about 2 pegs, if he is a peg high, aim up about 0.8 pegs (0.897532424 pegs, to be exact).

But Mr. Fisher, 82, is aiming at a higher target.

All three political parties have a high level aim of full employment".

On that basis, the strategy to transfuse as few RBC intraoperatively as possible seems to be a promising concept and a high priority aim [ 36, 37].

The Spaniard's upbeat rhetoric tends to jar with realists in a year of high aims and low achievement.