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Achieving

Achieve \A*chieve"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Achieved; p. pr. & vb. n. Achieving.] [OE. acheven, OF. achever, achiever, F. achever, to finish; [`a] (L. ad) + OF. chief, F. chef, end, head, fr. L. caput head. See Chief.]

  1. To carry on to a final close; to bring out into a perfected state; to accomplish; to perform; -- as, to achieve a feat, an exploit, an enterprise.

    Supposing faculties and powers to be the same, far more may be achieved in any line by the aid of a capital, invigorating motive than without it.
    --I. Taylor.

  2. To obtain, or gain, as the result of exertion; to succeed in gaining; to win.

    Some are born great, some achieve greatness.
    --Shak.

    Thou hast achieved our liberty.
    --Milton.

    Note: [[Obs]., with a material thing as the aim.]

    Show all the spoils by valiant kings achieved.
    --Prior.

    He hath achieved a maid That paragons description.
    --Shak.

  3. To finish; to kill. [Obs.]
    --Shak.

    Syn: To accomplish; effect; fulfill; complete; execute; perform; realize; obtain. See Accomplish.

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achieving

n. achievements, emphasizing the process of accomplishing them. vb. (present participle of achieve English)

Usage examples of "achieving".

Solving problems is usually a short term thing, but achieving national progress requires taking a long-term, goal-oriented approach.

Which implies, I hope, that what we need is more citizen activation and less government efforts at achieving their objectives for them.

One is at the minimum necessity level for achieving a goal, a second covers the optimum solution, and a third might be a money-is-no-object solution which tried to address the so-called requirement factors too.

OpSys people plus communicate the performance results of measurements of OpSys efforts toward achieving those top level goals.

I think we can show that if this idea is adopted, it will open the door toward eventually making many of those reductions and achieving most of our goals.

Senator, by our definition, is anything that prevents you from achieving an objective.

You can waffle around trying to solve all the rest of the problems in the world and still not end up achieving your real objectives.

Nevertheless, he concluded that the moral life is a consequence of civilisation, not the natural state and that in achieving morality and civilisation men and woman have lost their innocence.

Western nations, thereby achieving a foreign policy goal that had become a national obsession.

Such treatment by the authorities soon led some socialist leaders to despair of ever achieving their goals by parliamentary means and to embrace more radical ideologies, such as syndicalism and anarchism.

The German victories in Europe, including the fall of France in June 1940, buoyed the Japanese into believing that alliance with Germany could help in achieving their goals in East Asia, and in September of that year Japan signed a tripartite pact with the Axis powers.

Most importantly, achieving transformation means becoming a being of sharing.

Please be aware that these principles are an absolutely essential foundation for understanding the rest of this book, for using the tools of Kabbalah that it presents, and for achieving the connection with the Light that is our true purpose in life.

We have no time to spare, and we must build our entire lives toward achieving transformation.

Remember: achieving fulfillment through spiritual transformation is not easy, nor is it supposed to be, but it is what you are meant to do.