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aimed and raise
He was part of the Red Wedge comedy tour in 1986, which aimed to raise awareness of the social problems of the time, in support of the Labour Party.
The campaign relies on the assistance of organizations and institutions that can facilitate the project ’ s diffusion, by placing banners on their own websites or organizing events aimed to raise awareness of the project.
Protocol no. 14 aimed to reduce the workload of the Court and that of the Committee of Ministers of the Council of Europe, which supervises the execution of judgements, so that the Court could focus on cases that raise important human rights issues.
The restoration project aimed to raise the water level within the river, restore the river ecology to its previous state and improve its habitats.
This initiative is aimed at helping banks rid their balance sheets of toxic assets so they can raise new capital and increase lending.
" That year, the band played at two more concerts organized to raise political awareness: Live 8, which aimed to end global poverty, and the Hurricane Katrina benefit concert, ReAct Now: Music & Relief.
Ten percent of the profits of the organization goes into research for Friends of the Earth ( HK )' s Water Action Group, which is a charity aimed to raise public awareness of Hong Kong's coastal environment.
Matthias was taken hostage by George of Poděbrady, governor of Bohemia, a friend of the Hunyadis who aimed to raise a national king to the Hungarian throne.
The mid-1970s saw Capital Radio expand with the launch of the Help a London Child charity, which aimed to raise money for London's poorest children.
On 22 April 2008 RBS announced the largest rights issue in British corporate history, which aimed to raise £ 12billion in new capital to offset a writedown of £ 5. 9billion resulting from the bad investments and to shore up its reserves following the purchase of ABN AMRO.
This aimed to raise Catalans ' national awareness and create the necessary cultural and financial institutions for the development of Catalonia.
They aimed to raise £ 40, 000.
The concert aimed to raise money to build the Pavarotti and Friends Liberian Children's Village, to provide refuge for children in Liberia.
Allison has tabled a number of different legislative initiatives in Parliament including a bill aimed at removing the faint hope clause from the Criminal Code, and motions to entrench property rights in the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms and to raise awareness of Anaphylaxis.
The campaign aimed to raise funds to place the slogan " There's probably no God.
There, he collaborated with the Panhellenic Committee for Self-Determination for Cyprus which aimed to raise the profile of the Cyprus case on the international scene.
The second section continues along the theme of moral education, with several aphorisms aimed at parents regarding the proper way to raise children.
He became President of the Cricketers ' Association in 1968, which aimed to raise salaries and improve the conditions of employment of the county cricketer.
In 1998, when he lived just outside Washington DC, he formed and ran the American Friends of the British National Party ( AFBNP ), which aimed to raise funds for the BNP.
In forming a choir, Malone aimed to raise the women's morale and raise their profile in the public perception.
This major financial initiative aimed to return the University to financial stability, and then to raise the University ’ s profile to that of an elite school.
Thus, at one moment they would raise their swords aloft and smite after the manner of wild boars, throwing the whole weight of their bodies into the blow like hewers of wood or men digging with mattocks, and again they would deliver crosswise blows aimed at no target, as if they intended to cut to pieces the entire bodies of their adversaries, protective armour and all ".
This historic event, held in celebration of Hong Kong Polytechnic University 65th anniversary, aimed to raise fund for the University, the Children's Cancer Foundation and The Hong Kong Society for the Aged.

aimed and prestige
In the 1950s ( see 1950s in film ) the industry began to retreat slightly from the prestige productions which had made British films successful worldwide, and began to concentrate on popular comedies and World War II dramas aimed more squarely at the domestic audience.
... the innovativeness of Marie Antoinette's country retreat would attract her subjects ’ fierce disapproval, even as it aimed to bolster her autonomy and enhance her prestige ...
The movement was, at least in part, a legacy project to cement Mao's place in history, aimed to boost his prestige while he was alive and preserve the invulnerability of his ideas after his death.
Indeed, while these differ from official titles as they express no legal status, epithets have been awarded and adopted ( though the official procedure may provide for the formal decision to be issued by another institution, such as a legislative assembly ) by statesmen in power for fairly formal use, not dissimilar in purpose to various sinecures, knighthoods or peerage-type titles in postfeudal societies: they confer prestige without any legal authority, so essentially a matter of image or even propaganda, aimed at a domestic and / or foreign target audience.
The car was aimed at the upper segment of the Turkish market and would participate in international rallies, thus bringing prestige to the Anadol brand.
Nevertheless, the final product quality ( low or high ) is not dependent on the price elasticity of demand ; it is associated more with the specific needs that the product is aimed at satisfying and, in some cases, aspects of brand recognition ( e. g., prestige, practicability, money saving, expensiveness, planet environment conscience, power, & c .).
These improvements were aimed at helping retain the S-Class ' market leadership as the world's best-selling prestige luxury sedan.
With a further extension of the franchise in 1885, the much larger National Liberal was aimed at these new electors, and the Devonshire came to possess neither the prestige of Brooks's or the Reform, nor the broader appeal of the National Liberal.

aimed and land
* 1964 – North Korean Prime Minister Kim Il-sung calls for the removal of feudalistic land ownership aimed at turning all cooperative farms into state-run ones.
The Gracchi aimed to address these problems by reclaiming lands from the patricians that could then be granted to soldiers ; by restoring land to displaced peasants ; by providing subsidized grain for the needy and by having the Republic pay for the clothing of its poorest soldiers.
Socialists aimed to reclaim the land by becoming labourers and forming collectives.
Living off the land is not very easy when there is no food ready to eat, so there was, in theory at least, a prescribed " campaign season " that aimed to conduct warfare at a predictable time, when there would be both food on the ground and relatively good weather.
Fleets of microbial capsules can be aimed at clusters of new stars in star-forming clouds, where they may land on planets or captured by asteroids and comets and later delivered to planets.
Northumberland was furiously ambitious, and aimed to secure Protestant uniformity while making himself rich with land and money in the process.
The imperial government aimed to become a strong and independent nation by implementing domestic reforms ; strengthening military forces, developing commerce and industry, and surveying land ownership.
This piece of legislation aimed for greater flexibility and speed in the planning of land use, and made public participation a statutory requirement in the preparation of development plans.
Coordination of Information on the Environment ( CORINE ) is a European programme initiated in 1985 by the European Commission, aimed at gathering information relating to the environment on certain priority topics for the European Union ( air, water, soil, land cover, coastal erosion, biotopes, etc .).
The urban development policy of reunified Berlin, termed " Critical Reconstruction ", aimed to facilitate urban diversity by supporting a mixture of land functions.
MKN Embassy Techzone, is a freehold ICT business park project on approximately of prime Cyberjaya land in the flagship zone aimed for lease to multinational companies.
MKN Embassy Techzone, is a freehold ICT business park project on approximately of prime Cyberjaya land in the flagship zone aimed for lease to multinational companies.
This new definition is aimed to exclude payments to applicants who exercise no real or tangible agricultural activity on their land.
During the early 1960s he developed a series of prototype designs, which he called " terraplanes " if they were aimed for land use, and " naviplanes " for water.
They aimed at protecting peasants ' rights to land and property and to renting the land.
Thus, while land reform may be radical in nature, such as through large-scale transfers of land from one group to another, it can also be less dramatic, such as regulatory reforms aimed at improving land administration.
The Taika Reform, influenced by Chinese practices, started with land redistribution, aimed at ending the existing landholding system of the great clans and their control over domains and occupational groups.
People's livelihood, often referred to as socialism, was aimed at helping the common people through regulation of the ownership of the means of production and land.
In pursuance of a conservative policy which aimed at maintaining Athens as a land power, he was one of the chief opponents of the naval policy proposed by Themistocles.
The MAS aimed at giving more power to the country's indigenous and poor communities by means of land reforms and redistribution of gas wealth, and gradually increased its electoral support.
A lawn is an area of aesthetic and recreational land planted with grasses or other durable plants and can be defined by four characteristics: It is composed only of grass species ; it is subject to weed and pest control ; it is subject to practices aimed at maintaining its green color ; and it is regularly mowed to ensure an acceptable length.
Unfortunately for the defenders, the original mission of the fort — harbor defense — meant that it was designed so that the guns were primarily aimed at the Atlantic, with little capability of protecting from artillery fire from the surrounding land or from infantry conducting an amphibious assault.

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