I find myself troubled both by the strength and the apparent objective of the opposition.

What has been retained pertains more directly to tactics and apparent objectives.

Natural systems may not have an apparent objective but their outputs can be interpreted as purposes.

During the winter, Northampton fought a long and hard campaign with the apparent objective of seizing a harbour on the north side of the peninsula.

Its officers were sophisticated international bankers whose apparent objective was to keep their affairs secret, to commit fraud on a massive scale, and to avoid detection.

Its apparent objective was to replace Elizabeth I as queen of England with Mary Stuart.

But approaching the IRA from a nationalist perspective is very different from seeing them as savage, without apparent objectives other than the spread of evil.

Her captors set off through the starlight, their apparent objective a jutting shoulder less than half a mile to the east.

Some are locally oriented, mainstream political parties that have no apparent transnational objectives.

He moves back and forth in time without systematic rhyme or reason, his only apparent objective being to hype his plot.