But at its most basic level the EU is a group of countries seeking to collaborate on things like trade for mutual economic benefit, with the founding aim of avoiding any catastrophic reruns of the region's combative history.
The existence of the Office, regardless of what triggered it, was also reflective of the Fund's founding aim of ensuring grantees were held accountable for their use of donor finances, part of which rested on a commitment to transparency and availability of evaluation reports.
Created in 2004, the business-led coalition has two founding aims: to promote the sale of refrigeration units free of fluorinated gases ("F gas free"); and, to push for a regulatory framework that encourages climate-friendly alternatives.
Ten years before hospitalityclub and couchsurfing, a network was founded aimed solely at gay and lesbian travellers.
Prosecutors intend to show that the Serb Democratic political party Mr. Karadzic founded aimed to do precisely that, and that it worked closely with the police, the military and with paramilitary gangs and thugs to launch the campaign of ethnic killings.
This April, while still arguing over their founding aims, the group organised an anonymous poster campaign to lionise the commandos, police and soldiers who responded to a complex Taliban attack on the city with giant billboards and 5,000 fly-posters handed out downtown to enthusiastic drivers.
Mr Brown, the MSP for Clackmannanshire and Dunblane, said his goal was to help the SNP achieve its two founding aims: Scottish independence, and to "further the interests of the people of Scotland".
The policy was set up against a backdrop of food shortages and rations following World War II, and had five founding aims: increased productivity; a fair standard of living for farmers; stable markets; regular food supplies; reasonable prices for consumers.
While there are many legitimate criticisms of the EU, its commitment to gender equality – one of its founding aims – is generally impressive.
It was founded in aim to create a government of hope and responsibility".
Another recently launched effort, Drug Disease Model Resources (DDMoRe; www.ddmore.eu) (S195), a pioneer innovative medicines initiative founded effort, aims to design a mark-up language for encoding drug and disease models with associated metadata and ensuring interoperability between existing tools along with the development of novel disease models, for instance, diabetes.
