It's hard to square this «same - old - names» merry - go - round with Clegg's declared aim of «provid [ing] the opportunity for as many in our ranks as possible to contribute their skills to ministerial office». (totalpolitics.com)
So if, for example, some other country proposed as ambassador to the USA someone who declared their aim as being the destruction of the USA, The US government could veto this appointment. (politics.stackexchange.com)
He was followed by Jeremy Bentham, the first Utilitarian and a man who had «the declared aim of extirpating religious beliefs, even the idea of religion itself, from the minds of men». (faith.org.uk)