In some cases, buildings and books were emphasised over the more basic aim of improving literacy.
The most basic aim of a vacation ought to be restoration – physically, emotionally, mentally, spiritually.
The ideology remained strong enough to attract aspirant militants, misfits, the angry and the alienated in sufficient numbers for the group to survive – the basic aim of any clandestine extremist organisation.
Today the basic aim of both the Soviet Union & the U.S. is to assure their own survival on the most advantageous terms for as long as their arsenals, or anyone else's contain these weapons.
He founded his political party, the Aam Admi (Common Man) party or AAP in the wake of that campaign, with a basic aim of fighting graft, bringing better governance and cleaning up the murky and opaque world of Indian politics.
The basic aim of the producer-only rules is to ensure that all foods sold at market originate entirely or mostly on family farms within a half day's drive from New York City.
Far from wanting to keep God out of politics, as many liberals now claim, the basic aim of the founders was to keep politics out of religion (and to protect liberty of conscience).
A precociously gifted student, Schiele soon attracted the attention of Gustav Klimt, the pre-eminent artist of the Secession movement – an artistic revolution that covered many art forms, all driven by the basic aim of rejecting Beaux-Arts classicism and stuffy Salon mediocrity.
Bulk-buying from obscure suppliers helped them achieve their basic aim of selling at the lowest prices, and by 1960 Aldi had more than 300 stores in West Germany, still displaying items of stock in their original cardboard boxes, as they had done from the outset.
The basic aims of our campaign are these: first, to work towards and arrive at a working solution, however improbable this seems; second, to find new ways of looking at, and discussing what's important about, these houses and neighbourhoods.
It became perhaps one of the most basic aims of the investigation into the Paterson administration's involvement with a domestic abuse case against one of Gov. David A. Paterson's most senior aides: find out what the governor knew of the episode — its possible violence, its handling by the courts — and when he knew it.
