Sentence examples for abiding aim from inspiring English sources

Years later, when he became the country's first President, his abiding aim was to create an America that could command respect from the great nations of the earth — that had, as he put it, a "national character".

Asking any of the musicians who regularly commission and play his pieces – the Arditti Quartet, say, or pianist Nicolas Hodges, or violinist Mieko Kanno, or cellist Neil Hyde – to perform them perfectly, according to the precise letter, dot, and micro-indication of his scores, is not Ferneyhough's abiding aim.

From the moment Lenin came to power, his abiding aims in international relations were twofold: to prevent the formation of an imperialist united front against Soviet Russia; but, even more important, to stimulate proletarian revolutions abroad.

But disillusionment is, though often painful – and Beware of Pity has moments of high melodrama that have the power to make one put one's free hand over one's mouth as one reads – a very necessary process, and the stripping away of illusions was, after all, one of the abiding aims of the Freudian project.

The EU wants more time to assess whether Russia is abiding by peace agreements signed at Minsk aimed at bringing peace to war-hit eastern Ukraine.

The lack of female directors is so glaringly apparent that an official inquiry has been launched that aims to ensure the film industry is abiding by the US Civil Rights Act of 1964, which prohibits employment discrimination.

Yet Tiffany once said that his overall aim was "to fix beauty," and this exhibition demonstrates an abiding glow.

These individuals have escaped Mr. Putin's grasp, but through the misuse of Interpol he seeks to further his own illegitimate aims by recruiting the police forces of other law abiding countries to do his dirty work.

Even when services are offered, they usually take aim at immediate risks — substance abuse, for example, or domestic violence — not abiding problems like poverty or poor social support.

In heavenly love abiding.

"I am abiding by that agreement".