I longed for something unattainable.

She tried to look much younger than she actually was.

Nigeria has always sought a leadership role in Africa and its diaspora.

Enron aimed at getting a dominant position as the premier energy trader.

This was out of all the tourist sites in New York City this was her number one pick.

Parmalat wanted to do the same for the long life milk market.

Onlookers reported that police targeted protestors' bodies when shooting tear gas capsules.

She explained that her motivation was to cover news stories that mainstream media tend to ignore.

This was relatively easy during the Cold War, as Asia's postcolonial elites were forced to choose sides in a conflict of ideologies.

First, it aimed to keep Asia divided insofar as the West was concerned.

Since the Declaration of Independence, America has striven to uphold fairness and due process.

From an early age, she wanted to live life to the fullest.

Indeed, in the old days, Russia relied on its strength, mostly military, to determine its self image.

It did not aim to domesticate global finance, and it was not based on a thorough analysis of the crisis.

Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, by advocating the 1986 Single European Act, sought to maximize those gains.

It was seeking to break into an emerging market in auto insurance, in which drivers would pay based on their mileage.

America s return to the Israeli Palestinian diplomatic front is a welcome development. One surely that EU diplomacy has sought to bring about.

Previously, EU policy was to isolate Belarus, which itself was seeking isolation.

When forming the councils, the opposition sought to achieve a balance between government experience, technical expertise, and tribal support.

I was very eager to be useful in the world I think we all have that feeling.

By freezing Iranian assets outside of Iran, the UN was hitting the IRGC where it hurt, in its pocketbook.

The Slavery Commission sought to eradicate slavery and slave trading across the world, and fought forced prostitution.

She strove to document abuses against unarmed civilians in war torn regions worldwide.

But what distinguishes Hillary Clinton from Madeleine Albright or Condoleezza Rice is where she was willing to go for her education.

In the 1960 s, America wanted Pakistan to be on its side as it sought to contain the spread of communism in Asia.

Only Russia has sought to play a more destabilizing role during the global financial crisis, in Syria, and now in Ukraine.

It follows the nationalist narrative Japan, a victim of the European colonial powers, sought only to protect the rest of Asia from them.

Since even before the 2008 crisis, the United Nations, with the support of almost all of the developing and emerging countries, has been seeking to create such a framework.

When I opened my new dance studio, my aim was to educate my students about dance and make them work very hard at it.

Until Viktor Yanukovich bludgeoned his way into Ukraine s presidency earlier this year, Ukraine was becoming emphatically European in its orientation.

Until Viktor Yanukovych bludgeoned his way into Ukraine s presidency earlier this year, Ukraine was becoming emphatically European in its orientation.

Whatever America s motive, it later wisely decided to join the UN effort. The Bush administration s face saving rhetoric that it had rushed to push together the core group in the absence of other efforts was quietly let to pass.

During the Libyan crisis, Solana s successor, Catherine Ashton, deliberately sought to limit the EU s role to that of a super NGO focused on humanitarian aid and economic development.

The Bush administration s face saving rhetoric that it had rushed to push together the core group in the absence of other efforts was quietly let to pass.

After the dictatorship of the colonels, Greece sought international rehabilitation through membership in the European Community, whose imprimatur in turn helped to consolidate the fragile new democratic regime.

In her brief lifetime, she was often lauded for qualities (her beauty and style) that were secondary to her life s work, and derided for other aspects of her character (her emotionality and chaotic personal life) that were equally beside the point. As a result, few people noticed how genuinely, powerfully transformative her agenda was, how well she had thought it out, and how audaciously she sought to manage it.

For a country positioning itself as a leader in the global knowledge economy, neglecting investment in education was a grave error, with other countries now staking a claim to the role to which India aspired.

As a result, few people noticed how genuinely, powerfully transformative her agenda was, how well she had thought it out, and how audaciously she sought to manage it.

However, an overt policy of Turkification has receded in the past decade, as the AKP has sought to build a political base around religious identification rather than ethnicity.

In fact, even the term chemical science enjoyed some popularity in the nineteenth century a time when the field sought to distinguish itself from alchemy and the promotion of quack nostrums.

Gazprom s co optation of Europe has been achieved mainly through Germany, where its partnerships with energy companies and banks have helped align the authorities with Russian aims.

In fact, America has been eager for some time to establish order'' in the world and modernize particularly troublesome regimes in highly strategic regions of the world.

Russia sought a pragmatic approach that would protect its commercial interests in Syria and its naval base at the port of Tartus, while bringing an end to the bloodletting.

Turkish Islam is more moderate and pluralistic than elsewhere in the Middle East, and, since at least the late Ottoman period, Turkey has sought to fuse Islam and Westernization.

For centuries, British foreign policy strove to avoid permanent European entanglements but, most importantly, it aimed to prevent a single continental power from achieving dominance especially if that power happened to be France. In the meantime, the British colonized large portions of the globe.