Getting the highest credit rating is not necessarily a desirable goal in itself.

And forgetting may not be a realistic or desirable goal.

That is a desirable goal, regardless of how long it takes to achieve.

Morale would then be higher: a desirable goal and a stimulus to even greater success.

A lot of them failed to reach that desirable goal.

Such a relationship is a desirable goal, but also a distant one.

That is a desirable goal, but has little chance of achievement in the near future.

Reasonableness was seeming a less desirable goal by the moment.

A smooth transition to Chinese rule after that date is a desirable goal.

If that failed, we'd be no worse off with her dead, but it was hardly a desirable goal.