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Discover LudwigThe phrase "aim after" is not correct and is not commonly used in written English.
It seems to be a misunderstanding of the phrase "aim for," which is used to express a goal or target one is trying to achieve.
Example: "She aims for excellence in her work."
Alternatives: "strive for" or "target".
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The aim, after all, is to win.
His aim after earning his Ph.D. at Cornell was to return to Williams.
The aim, after all, is to win public favour and government support.
The aim, after all, is to escape those "legal and political restraints that bind government officials".
Finally 7digital, the digital music and radio services company, added 1p to 33.5p on its first day of trading on Aim after its reverse takeover of UBC Media.
When the move ended with another Toulon penalty, Wilkinson duly took aim, after his lengthy treatment, from wide out on the right.
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Changing his artistic aims after arriving, he began to study architecture under John Hejduk and Peter Eisenman at Cooper Union.
Desire, Howard notes, runs out of time in which to accomplish its aims: "after sixty-five, next year / is now".
Still, the correlation has been strong enough for almost all countries to want a new set of global development aims after the current lot expires in 2015.
Without a brake or recoil mechanism, a gun lurched out of position during firing and had to be re-aimed after each round.
One of its key aims, after all, is to separate western societies and their Muslim communities: if Muslims are left feeling rejected, besieged and hated, Isis believes, then the recruitment potential will only multiply.
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