Sentence examples for aim like from inspiring English sources

His aim, like all ballplayers, was to be a regular contributor to a major league team.

For a long time, Beale's aim, like that of any serious male classical actor, was to play Hamlet.

But the aim, like the others, is to produce a positive return, over the medium to long term, in all market conditions.

Despite the alleged ideology of one or two of them, many of the punk bands will doubtless aim (like the Sex Pistols) for the big corporations and the big advances.

His aim, like Bin Laden's, is to recreate a pan-Islamist caliphate across the Middle East and beyond, headed by himself or a like-minded individual committed to a return to what he regards as a purer form of Islam.

His aim, like that of other great Persian viziers, was to impress on his less-sophisticated Turkmen rulers, brought up in the tradition of the steppe, the superiority of Persian civilization and its political wisdom.

The substantive economic capacity of these regional players means that health policy aims, like universal access to healthcare, are likely to come secondary to trade policy aims, like increasing foreign investment that can be gained from medical tourism.

Mr. Shepard's last string of patents had larger aims, like saving the world.

You may say that the party aims, like all such parties, to keep the well off well off.

One senses that Suri's ambitious aims, like those of his subjects, may have exceeded the available time and resources.

"And finally between Peterborough and London when you hurtle on, you felt the whole thing was being aimed like a bullet – at the heart of things, you know.