"It wrung my heart," he writes, "an old exhausted man with children and grandchildren, trembling with the hope of moving to a country he could hardly even have located on the map, just so that he could go on begging his way there, a stranger without any real aim left in life!" This withering objectivity about the futility of the situation is perhaps what enabled Zweig to give up the struggle.
The group denounced the conference as a farce whose real aim is to "ensure that Internet companies wanting to operate in China fall into line".
By calling members of Mr. Milosevic's inner circle, Ms. Del Ponte apparently intends to show what she contends was his real aim: a conspiracy to create a nation patched together from land occupied by Serbs in Croatia, Bosnia and Serbia.
Sheene repaid Suzuki's faith by winning the 1973 formula 750 world championship, but the 750s were only a distraction from his real aim of winning the 500cc world championship, the pinnacle of motorcycle sport.
Though their suit seeks to force Koriyama to relocate their children to a safer area, their real aim is to challenge the nation's handling of evacuations and the public health crisis.
The findings, reported online Oct. 23 in the journal PLoS One, could help researchers design medical studies that distinguish the placebo response from the underlying effect of a medicine -- the real aim of drug trials.
A rampant press having dethroned a prime minister would then just have hounded the government until it achieved its real aim – an immediate election that would destroy the Labour party.
Invited to enlarge, he might offer the following: "Sometimes I think the novelist fashions a totem just as much as an aesthetic, and that his real aim, not even known necessarily to himself, is to create a diversion in the fields of dread".
No, say Mr Fini's acolytes, who argue that his real aim is a modernised right, rather than an old-style, Christian Democrat-based centre.Not that that will relieve the pressure on Mr Berlusconi when parliament reconvenes in September.
