They are public interest institutions with explicit social as well as economic objectives.

On Iraq, the two men agreed that it would be better off without Mr. Hussein, but only Mr. Bush said it was his explicit objective to make sure he was ousted.

The explicit objectives of this collaboration were outlined in a top-secret letter from Menzies to Spaak:

Interests will be mobilised in pursuit of explicit objectives, and the parties involved will use forms of resistance which seem most appropriate.

The problem of establishing coherent, explicit and stable objectives for state enterprises applies with particular force to the railways.

The National Conservation Strategy Report has three explicit objectives: conservation of natural resources, promotion of sustainable development, and improvement of efficiency in the use and management of resources.

I believe that putting all those involved on a level playing field and increasing safety for everyone should be an explicit objective.

Bearing in mind that we have an explicit objective in the Lisbon Strategy to move our R&D spending up towards the 3% target, there is huge potential here.

This requires well-structured hierarchies, ideally into distinct cost or responsibility centres, explicit objectives and performance measures to monitor results.

A "memorandum for the record" has the explicit objective not only of recording an event or a conversation, but also of arguing the writer's case.