Sentence examples for its own aim from inspiring English sources

—Northanger Abbey (1817) Dress is at all times a frivolous distinction, and excessive solicitude about it often destroys its own aim".

Instead, it tried to build its own AIM pages social network.

Choose a wine that you could drink on its own – aim for a crisp white, such as white rioja or a sauvignon blanc.

But Jeff Tittle, executive director of the New Jersey Sierra Club, maintains that by helping Merrill Lynch build on a pristine rural site, the state is working against its own aim of buying land for a public greenway trail from the Delaware River to Princeton through Hopewell, because all land in the area will now be made much more expensive by the immense development.

Reason has its own aim, to get what is in fact good for the whole soul, but in a soul perfectly ruled by spirit, where there are no genuine psychological conflicts between different parts, reason's love for truth and wisdom must be limited to that which is also held to be honorable.

Like any human practice, maternal practice has its own form of thinking with a vocabulary and logic peculiar to it, and its own aims and goals.

The policy thus defeated its own aims: it handicapped the economic development of the empire's border regions (e.g., in Siberia) and worked against the social and cultural integration of the natives into the fold of the dominant Russian culture (although Russification did take place on a significant scale in the case of some native elites, as in the Caucasus and Crimea).

What it does offer the guilty is a temporary chance to get off scot-free.Is it better to know?If the commission is to be judged by its own aims, the measure of success is whether it uncovers the "truth", and achieves "reconciliation".

In many ways, indeed, ETA is an obstacle to its own aims.

Each force has its own aims, and these too can be fluid.

Each of these factions has its own aims, which narrow the terms of any possible peace deal.