σκοπός inglês:

My aim is to learn enough English so I don't need to carry a dictionary with me when I travel.

Even when their main aim is to relax, travellers said that they enjoyed seeing the sights.

to aim

Beyond the novel, we come to works whose avowed aim is information.

No one in the village knew that the soldiers were taking aim at their village.

All of these sports and many others are dominated by the human urge to aim at something.

Granting that the aim is right, how will you carry out the plan?

Companions with the same aim, to carve out their own future, cooperate with each other.

They're some developers who aim to make a fast buck!

Our aim is that, when planning classes, we know how to select stimulating material for the students and how to put it into use.

They aimed to create products that were simple in design and could be easily mass produced. Some Bauhaus designers even tried to create an 'International Style', which would be suitable for all countries, cultures and traditions.

for/at sth / to do sth / be aimed at doing sth. - Aimed at higher efficiency or income

The government is aiming for 100% employment.

Sally hopes to get good marks because she’s aiming to go to university.

cause problems

It was built by working men and women who dug into what little savings they had to give $5 and $10 and $20 to the cause.

The recent news about the Fukushima I nuclear power plant will likely strengthen the cause of the advocates who want to let our local nuclear power plant's license expire.

But so that we may not cause offense, go to the lake and throw out your line. Take the first fish you catch; open its mouth and you will find a four-drachma coin. Take it and give it to them for my tax and yours.

Technically, drugs that cause miosis can relieve the PNS effects of those causing mydriasis since sympathetic and parasympathetic stimulation tend to negate each others' effects.

Do you know where my key is? I don't see it anywhere. "You must be looking for it with your eyes closed, then, cause it's on the table as always."

It is the drop in the rice pricing (blamed on consumers' loss of interest in rice and the freeing up of the international market) that is the cause.

Today, the milkman was buried. There were a lot of people, cause everybody in the village knew him. "Oh, is there a milkman in Linschoten?" "Well, no, not anymore!"

I call upon the scientific community in our country, those who gave us nuclear weapons, to turn their great talents now to the cause of mankind and world peace: to give us the means of rendering these nuclear weapons impotent and obsolete.

Seagulls cause all types of disturbances by cackling loudly, spreading guano, tearing up garbage bags and attacking to get food.

The fact that educated Americans in general no longer share understandable background knowledge is a chief cause of their inability to communicate effectively.

In 2011, Toyota recalled two million vehicles which, they alleged, had gas pedals that could jam and cause the car to accelerate uncontrollably.

The oil spill is causing problems for coastal fisheries. The hurricane caused widespread damage