Sentence examples for a proper aim of from inspiring English sources

By boosting domestic demand, these policies have also contributed to economic growth.Many better-off city dwellers agree that Lula deserves praise for bringing into the Brazilian mainstream the once-novel idea that reducing poverty is a proper aim of government (though others sneer snobbishly).

A different sort of approach to methodology in jurisprudence takes it that the proper aim of a legal theory is to specify a substantive conception of law that it would be especially desirable for people to adopt.

It seems to us the proper aim of a census is to find out not if your house is built over a basement or a concrete slab, but if a nation is built on a rock or in quicksand.

Keynes thought that the pursuit of money for its own sake was a pathological condition, and that the proper aim of work is to provide leisure.

He also believed that the proper aim of polar exploration was not geographical discovery but scientific research.

(Oscar Wilde, in his dialogue "The Decay of Lying," suggests that the proper aim of art is "the telling of beautiful untrue things").

John Dunford, general secretary of the Association of School and College Leaders, said: "The constantly increasing target for the number of academies is not helpful and will create turmoil where consistent, steady improvement is the proper aim of school leaders and governors".

It would be comical if it weren't so serious that the DfE is still blundering on, driven by a political imperative to get as many free schools as possible open before the next election rather than fulfilling its proper aim of guaranteeing quality and efficient use of public funds.

And, though they are on firm ground in insisting on unrestricted trading, they should agree to conservative definitions of sinks until scientists understand them better.Carrots, not just sticksThe proper aim of the negotiations in The Hague should thus be to turn Kyoto into a treaty that bites, but with full flexibility over how countries should reach the targets that they have signed up to.

Hence, the proper aim of higher technical education is to promote significant language learning, since significant learning entails professional development.

It might of course turn out that answers to all these questions will flow from a single theoretical foundation for instance from a unitary consequentialist principle specifying the good that punishment should achieve, or from some version of the retributivist principle that the sole proper aim of punishment is to impose on the guilty the punitive burdens they deserve.