Adopting goals that are good for the individual as well as others around them may lessen the impact of contingent self-esteem.

The objective was for students to adopt specific goals (intentions) after viewing the story and defining a problem.

President Bush and the governors adopted ambitious national goals for improving schools over a 10-year period.

By September 2006, the divestment movement grew substantially and adopted larger goals.

Even companies that foresee emissions rising with output are adopting more aggressive goals than the administration.

The party even declared that it would adopt the ideals and goals of the recent Egyptian revolution in its party platform.

The nations at the meeting must start by adopting more ambitious goals than the modest objectives laid out in the draft papers.

But global financial markets have been pummeled since late summer, forcing Citigroup to adopt less ambitious goals.

While the committee never adopted formal quotas or goals, it used the city's 36 percent goal as a benchmark.

It was a tactic of showing all our cards and believing that if we adopted ambitious goals, others would join in.