The great aim of Theodoric's administration was to preserve harmony between Goths and Romans.
"The great aim of all true religion," wrote William Temple, "is to transfer the centre of interest from self to God".
He saw himself as an enabler, quoting Herbert Spencer: "The great aim of education is not knowledge but action".
Before the publication of Nouveau Christianisme, Saint-Simon had not concerned himself with theology, but in this work, beginning with a belief in God, he tries to resolve Christianity into its essential elements, and he finally propounds this precept: that religion "should guide the community toward the great aim of improving as quickly as possible the conditions of the poorest class".
Health, character, and the success of all political and private ventures are determined by the preponderance, at the time, of the yin or the yang, and the great aim of ancient Chinese medicine is to control their proportions in the body.
- (DE) Madam President, President-in-Office of the Council, ladies and gentlemen, the great aim of this initiative, which we presented almost exactly a year ago, was to optimise the free movement of goods within the European internal market while increasing consumer and business confidence in the rules governing the internal market.
This serves a greater aim of terrorising its enemies through provocation of irrational fear – which is especially prevalent when there is a sense that the threat is ubiquitous.
One of his great aims is to secure a reconciliation between Islam and Christianity.
We have now invited Scaf to share power with a civilian government: not, this time, a caretaker government, but a revolutionary government that will start the process of implementing the great social aims of the revolution, and that will oversee our progress to free and fair elections in the autumn.
