A world-class paleontologist as well as a Jesuit priest, Teilhard de Chardin relied on evolutionary theory and extended it to propose an ever-expanding "noosphere" -- an inter-connected realm of cognition and consciouness that aims finally at the Omega Point, which constitutes ultimate knowledge of the universe, and of God.
It's a sharp reflection on 20th century colonialism -- and especially on white supremacist obduracy -- that the ANC was the first African liberation movement ever to come into existence... and yet pretty much the last to achieve its aim -- finally toppling the apartheid regime only in the century's final decade.
Now they aim to finally deliver on promises they have made for years and collect a fat payoff.
"The Mariner field was discovered in 1981 and Statoil entered the licence as operator in 2007 with the aim of finally unlocking the resources.
In other words, AOL is taking the 45 million active users of AIM and finally turning them into the underpinnings of a social network.
AIM will finally go offline in December, an announcement met with equal parts nostalgia and touching bafflement, among many, that it still existed at all.
Rather, we will shed light on some universal principles that underpin different shapes and forms of leadership, with the aim of finally situating leadership in the broader human context.
This pledge, and those of several other nations, will be a basis for negotiations at the Paris conference, where parties aim to finally adopt a binding global agreement on measures to limit global temperature increase to below 2°C.
Cincinnati are now aiming to finally win a playoff game, something they haven't done since the 1990 season.
Secondly, a multi-pronged, sustained initiative aimed at finally cleaning up the city, which is drowning in waste of all sorts due to relentless littering.
