200 Verbs to Use for the Word aim

It was, however, a chance too good to be ignored; and, taking aim, I fired at the one directly beneath.

The approaching man fired on him at once, but missed his aim.

But it is, however, the exact moment to plead for better care of workers, both women and men, because their health and skill are as necessary in attaining the national aim as the soldiers' prowess and well-being.

We try not to stare at the well-set-up woman in her sensible uniform, while she on her part tries to look unconscious, and with much dignity accomplishes the common aim much more successfully than do we.

If we can bring that about we have achieved our War Aim; if we cannot, then this struggle has been for us only such loss and failure as humanity has never known before.

We have set before ourselves the necessary and legitimate aim of spreading and enrooting German influence in Turkey, not only by military missions and the construction of railways, but also by the establishment of intellectual relations, by the work of German Kulturin a word, by moral conquests; and we are determined, by pacific means, to reach an amicable understanding with the Turks and the other nations in the Turkish Empire.

The present quarrel arises from the deliberate policy of Russia, pursuing aims that are incompatible with every Japanese tradition and every Japanese hope.

Well, you keep under cover about here, moving about just enough to spoil the aim of the foe.

As ambitious, as quarrelsome, and as aggressive as other States, her geographical position has directed her aims overseas rather than toward the Continent of Europe.

In Hungary the National Woman Suffrage Association includes many societies having other aims also, and it has branches in 87 towns and cities, combining all classes of women from the aristocracy to the peasants.

Not until the renaissance did writers on the theory of poetry carry over Cicero's threefold aim of the orator and make it apply to the poet.

"England's cultural development has brought all these since Shakespeare's time; energy, willpower, united with high endeavour to realize great aims and overcome mighty resistance.

In imagination they saw a dramatic scene in courtthe disappointed demented desperate litigant suddenly drawing a revolver and with unerring aim shooting the judge through the brain before the deadly weapon could be wrenched from his hands.

When men of the better class form a society for promoting some noble or ideal aim, the result almost always is that the innumerable mob of humanity comes crowding in too, as it always does everywhere, like vermintheir object being to try and get rid of boredom, or some other defect of their nature; and anything that will effect that, they seize upon at once, without the slightest discrimination.

Sooner here, later there, it surrendered to the financial, industrial, commercial forces that were taking over the control and direction of society, becoming partners with them and following their aims, conniving at their schemes, and sharing in their ever-increasing profits.

This disturbed Honey's aim to such an extent that instead of shooting Racey through the head he shot Rack through the hat.

The soul that knows her aim, Sins not by loving God's own counterfeit Due measure kept, and bounds, and order meet.

That urged by thee, I turned the tuneful art From sounds to things, from fancy to the heart; For wit's false mirror held up Nature's light; Shewed erring pride, Whatever is, is right; That reason, passion, answer one great aim; That true self-love and social are the same; That virtue only, makes our bliss below; And all our knowledge is, ourselves to know.

The chief reason, however, for the retention of the old frontiers was that they suited the aims of Prussia.

Now, do these things constitute as a national policy an inspiring aim or not?

" Another way of stating our aim in telling stories to children is that a story presents morality in the concrete.

One day a warrior named Kakú made a sally out of the fort, and approaching the centre of the besieging army, threw a javelin at Minúchihr, which, however, fell harmless before it reached its aim.

He gives the same threefold aims as "ut probet, ut delectet, ut flectet," in the Orator, 69; and in the De oratore, II, 121.

But monotony in the structure of sentences, monotony of cadence, monotony of climax, monotony anywhere, necessarily defeats the very aim and end of style; it calls attention to the manner; it blunts the sensibilities; it renders excellences odious.

Even our economic activity has primarily served this aim, and has in fact originated to a large extent in the purely politico-military problems (aus den unmittelbaren Machtaufgaben) which confronted the Turkish Government.

200 Verbs to Use for the Word  aim