The basic aim hasn't changed.
Since the first census in 1790, the basic aim has been to count every person in the country.
The basic aim, set out by Arthur Samuel in 1959, is to get computers to teach themselves.
"The bus company, being an external expression of the system, would naturally suffer, but the basic aim was to refuse to cooperate with evil".
The ideology remained strong enough to attract aspirant militants, misfits, the angry and the alienated in sufficient numbers for the group to survive – the basic aim of any clandestine extremist organisation.
Today the basic aim of both the Soviet Union & the U.S. is to assure their own survival on the most advantageous terms for as long as their arsenals, or anyone else's contain these weapons.
The basic aim of the producer-only rules is to ensure that all foods sold at market originate entirely or mostly on family farms within a half day's drive from New York City.
"The important thing right now is to underpin measures to establish a stable medium- to long-term growth pattern, which is the basic aim, because in fact the revision does not cast doubt on our deficit consolitation plan".
The basic aim seems both simple and benign: "Taking political power at a local level, then using it to enable people to have a greater say in the decisions that affect their lives".
The Tories were motivated more by consumerist thinking than Labour, but the basic aim (to make disgruntled voters feel they were masters of their public services) was the same.
Far from wanting to keep God out of politics, as many liberals now claim, the basic aim of the founders was to keep politics out of religion (and to protect liberty of conscience).
