"To excel in all things should be your constant aim," Timothy exhorted her.
As the translator Martin McLaughlin notes, Calvino's constant aim was "to raise the target which literature sets itself: he challenges literature to describe the indescribable, from macrocosm to microcosm, from the Big Bang to the division of cells".
Our constant aim will be to compete for silverware and championships.
As Olive Anderson puts it, "Green's constant aim was the separation of the spiritual and the supernatural … God must be sought in each person's soul, and would be found through the life of Christian love" (Anderson, 1991, 685).
His constant aim now remained to win over the Monophysites, yet not to surrender the Chalcedonian faith.
That's a constant aim for Elliott, a polymath with wide-ranging interests at work and at home.
May those blessings which it has hitherto been your constant aim to confer on others now be returned in full measure to yourself".
"If we are to form a United States of Europe, or whatever name it may take, we must begin now....Our constant aim must be to build and fortify the strength of the United Nations organization.
He was unrepentant about his past actions and policies and insisted that, when in power, the constant aim of his policies was the honor and the ascendancy of his country; and on every occasion and in all business he preserved his loyalty to Athens.
In an early address to that body, he promised, "It shall be my constant aim, gentlemen of the Senate, to exhibit at all times, to every member of this body, the courtesy and impartiality which are due to the representatives of equal States".
