Sentence examples for one's aim from inspiring English sources

Vergerio felt that education should not be used as a means of entering the lucrative professions; medicine and law, especially, were looked on with suspicion if one's aim in studying them was merely that of gaining material advantages.

This fact does not prevent progress from being made on the topic; for if one's aim is to establish no-go results for time machines it suffices to identify necessary conditions for the operation of a time machine and then to prove, under suitable hypotheses about what is physically possible, that it is not physically possible to satisfy said necessary conditions.

One's aim in Lent should not be to embrace suffering.

One's aim in life should be to die in good health.

One's aim should be to love God more than anything and, in order to achieve that end, one might find it necessary to deprive oneself of certain comforts – or even necessities, and as a consequence one might suffer.

If one's aim is to limit an insurgency, Petersen told me, don't go to "the fanatics but the next group they'd go to for recruits, and give them incentives not to join.

However, as in all study designs, its' use depends on one's aims.

To anyone who has even considered considering themselves a gadget geek — or has, at least, turned on their TV anytime in the past year and a half and seen Apple's "There's An App For That" campaign — there's no question who this one's aimed at.

For Dworkin, one cannot coherently demand compensation for any aspect of one's aims and commitments and tastes and ideals that one is glad to have.

Without the ability to participate intelligently in politics one cannot use one's votes to advance one's aims nor can one be said to participate in a process of reasoned deliberation among equals.

Their managerial ideal was wu wei, literally "doing nothing" but in practice meaning to be so attuned to life that you could accomplish one's aims seemingly without effort.