Likewise, APEC has long aimed to free up investment between its members.
Instead, it has long aimed to plant a flag and let private litigants take care of the rest.
KINDERGARTEN has long aimed at developing social, emotional and verbal skills to enhance later academic success, especially for children who do not attend quality preschools.
And the campaign has long aimed to make sure that no other candidate, like Mr. Gingrich, becomes too strong in the early voting states.
Focusing on this question distracts from Russia's intense, blatant policy of regime change that has long aimed to destabilise Georgia through ethnic manipulation, and thus thwart our democracy while stopping Nato's expansion.
Most teachers would agree that it is inspiring and motivating to break down the traditional fences we put around different school subjects; my colleagues and I have long aimed to encourage "cross-curricular links" to spur lateral thinking.
Luxury hotels have long aimed for an image of exclusivity — setting prices beyond the reach of most travelers, allowing wait lists to build for restaurant reservations, and carefully generating buzz with a well-placed celebrity guest in the gossip magazines.
The crisis in the long-governing party arose last week, when Koichi Kato, a former party secretary general and foreign minister who has long aimed for the top post, declared that his faction would abstain in the event of an opposition vote to unseat Mr. Mori.
But those proportions, too, are edging downwards.Global news outlets are of course nothing new: the BBC, CNN and Al-Jazeera, as well as the Financial Times, the Wall Street Journal and indeed The Economist, have long aimed at a worldwide audience, and newswires like Reuters and Bloomberg have big, free online offerings.
This form of microcredit — the smallest of small loans, with no collateral and few questions asked — was pioneered by Grameen Bank in Bangladesh and has long aimed to ease poverty in the world's developing countries, where rural villagers use it to buy livestock, repair motorcycles or otherwise increase their income.
