"aim" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- It is one of the saving qualities of ability that it has the power of growth, and great responsibilities often educate an able man out of selfish aims.
- In Orthodox Christianity mankind has chosen to use his freewill for selfish aims (to have a separate being from God) and therefore caused the fall of man.
- Separatists, chauvinists and nationalists of all kinds understand this well and are trying to use the growth of peoples' national self-consciousness for their selfish aims.
- Of the theoretical faults, Bentham thought that natural rights were a construction adopted to pursue the selfish aims of the drafters, of which no logical basis could be found.
- He never once had to hang down His head at the discovery of His own selfish aims and by-ends.
- It is for this very reason that Eristic Dialectic must admittedly take victory, and not objective truth, for its selfish aim and purpose.
- Yes, here at the United Nations headquarters, which is dedicated to preserving the peace of the world, short-sighted men are at work trying to further their own selfish aims.
- "The whole scheme is being jeopardized by several organizations with political strings, local grievances or selfish aims."
- Every experiment, by multitudes or by individuals, that has a sensual and selfish aim, will fail.
- 'The agency is committed to protecting the public purse from fraudsters who are determined to steal from the taxpayer for their own selfish aims,' the minister said.
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