Sentence examples for a serious aim from inspiring English sources

Such lightheartedness had a serious aim: getting the couples to think about each other and improving their ability to communicate.The couples all new or expectant parents, none of them married were taking part in a workshop run by the Oklahoma Marriage Initiative (OMI), a programme that aims to help Oklahomans build and sustain healthy marriages.

Such lightheartedness had a serious aim: getting the couples to think about each other and improving their ability to communicate.The couples all new or expectant parents, none of them married were taking part in a workshop run by the Oklahoma Marriage Initiative (OMI), a programme that aims to help build and sustain marriages.

As well as fulfilling the TED audience's appetite for all things weird and wonderful, the experiment had a more serious aim.

Despite all the colorful festivities (which included a spectacular parade), many of the over 65,000 people in attendance said the event had a more serious aim: marriage equality.

The play, which is clearly based on the Jayson Blair scandal at the Times, has enough good, cheap stuff in it — emotional cliffhangers based on deceit, race, and other flashy tropes — to disguise its more serious aim: to be a thriller about language.

Founded in 1920 by Katherine Dreier, Marcel Duchamp and Man Ray as an "experimental museum" and satirically incorporated society, Société Anonyme's more serious aim was to promote modern art in America.

The serious aim is to highlight papers that, although perhaps flawed, may still be interesting.

But don't expect your morning walk to transform your body, especially if you don't take serious aim at your diet.

"We need to explore legislative ideas to ensure that energy prices reflect supply and demand... .. BP, the 'heroes' of Alaska, has been in the crosshairs of the CFTC of late, trying to fend off charges that it rigged prices of oil and gas futures (see "The Government Finally Takes Serious Aim at the Manipulation of Oil Prices" 9/01/06).

We explain how the outputs of this approach can inform the game mechanic and the development of non-player characters, and apply it to the design of a serious game aimed at reducing time-to-competence in soft project management skills for professionals working in corporate environments.

The Crown Prosecution Service wanted to charge him under the law's provisions against bomb hoaxers, a serious measure aimed at a serious public nuisance.