Sentence examples for the limited aim from inspiring English sources

The limited aim, instead, is to ease tensions by agreeing to resume regular talks between the country's top diplomats.

When a gang of mates in Leeds decided to form a band three years ago, they had the limited aim, they claim, of blagging a spot at their home town's festival.

The paradox is that the limited aim of damage control has a better chance of working if it is genuinely sought in the context of the riskier, more uncertain pursuit of a political solution.Many Palestinians would agree with Mr Powell's assessment that their armed uprising against occupation has become self-defeating.

He therefore gathered an army of 20,000 men, mainly from V Corps, and launched an expedition into Extremadura with the limited aim of capturing the fortress at Badajoz and hopefully drawing some of the Allied forces away from their impregnable positions in the Lines.

The limited aim of figure 1 is to organise the investigation of EarlyBF with attention to the possible predictor variables at several levels.

Where efforts were made to engage groups beyond the target group, this often had the limited aim of enabling the diffusion of health-related knowledge, to parents or other groups [ 53, 79] rather than engaging them in transformative change.

Despite the limited aims of the framers of the Declaration, its principles (especially Article 1) could be extended logically to mean political and even social democracy.

The White House stressed the limited aims of the operations, aware that one of Obama's proudest achievements in office has been the extrication of America from Iraq after eight gruelling years of war.

US secretary of state, John Kerry outlined the limited aims: "the Geneva peace conference is not the end but rather the beginning, the launch of a process, a process that is the best opportunity for the opposition to achieve the goals of the Syrian people and the revolution".

After all, a future of self-determination for Afghan women is pretty much exactly what then-Senator Clinton insisted American soldiers fought and died for -- not just the limited aims that now define the mission she represents.

The more limited aim for the U.N. is to develop well-trained, adequately armed forces that can be dispatched quickly to trouble spots to prevent ethnic or political conflicts from escalating into widespread violence or to help maintain a truce or sustain a peace agreement that brings a war or ethnic strife to an end.