Keeping our waist measurements lower than those of our hips is a practical aim for everyone.

The theoretical and practical aims of the proposed study go hand in hand.

History has often been studied with some practical or theoretical aim, but also may be studied out of simple intellectual curiosity.

She has practical aims, high ambitions, and the endurance to help make her dreams a reality.

He had no practical aim in life; he just wanted to read the classics.

It has no practical or educational aim, yet it knows what ordinary knowledge cannot seize.

The Order's main practical aim was to create an outdoor movement that would allow boys, girls, men and women to work and learn together.

The transcendentalists varied in their interpretations of the practical aims of will.

Applied research is original investigation to acquire new knowledge directed primarily towards a specific practical aim or objective.

Consumer surveys rarely go beyond the practical aims of the people who commission (and pay for) them.