set an objective

Specific - for example, you might set an objective of getting ten new customers.

"The Fed must set an objective to get it down and do it."

I do think it makes more ecological sense to set an objective that is actually capable of being achieved by all Europe's states and economies.

An investigation will be carried out where we have not set an objective of good as a result of uncertainty.

"In the Rangers we're taught to set an objective and do what ever it takes to achieve it.

Ethical: The Form of the Good sets an objective standard for morality.

Here is a step by step routine to follow when setting an objective for an interaction:

The action plan proposed by the Commission sets an objective of 20% alternative fuels by 2020.

The Lisbon Strategy set an objective of 60%.

The Maastricht Treaty set an objective of promoting stable growth while protecting the environment.

We do not fix the duration of the plans: we set an objective and estimate the approximate time we will need to achieve it.

Analysing the situation helps us to detect the circumstances that need to be heeded when setting an objective that is realistic.

Performance standards or emission limits are types of regulations that set an objective or performance level for the regulatory target to meet.

Dr. Joshi: For all new products, we set an objective that applies to all corporate people.

For example, they may have been encouraged to stick their necks out and set an objective and then been clobbered for not achieving it.

KSWA has set an objective to reach out to underprivileged out-of-school youth a segment.

The Menlove court disagreed, reasoning that such a standard would be too subjective, instead preferring to set an objective standard for adjudicating cases:

In 1999, China set an objective of "zero growth" in coastal marine capture catch, and in 2001 changed the objective to "minus growth".

"The British agreement sets an objective standard (for rejection) that a court can deal with if there is a dispute," said Helen Stevenson, the chief executive of the Authors Guild.

If in this report we now set an objective of covering at least 15 % of energy consumption from renewables by the year 2010, that is still far less than would be technically possible.

An important achievement at Tampere was setting an objective whereby those who have migrated into the Union legally must have rights and obligations comparable with those of Union citizens.

The Government has set an objective of having a structure of NVQs which, by the end of 1992, covers 80 per cent of the working population of the UK.

Like a general planning an invasion, Lake was a master at setting an objective and then designing a vast, convoluted, sweeping series of trades to accomplish his ultimate objective--what he called the "perpetual motion machine."

Due to George Cadbury's Quaker beliefs, he set an objective to provide decent quality homes designed by architect William Alexander Harvey in a healthy environment which could be afforded by industrial workers.

Instead, the courts interpreted the Eighth Amendment as setting an objective standard of minimal conditions that prisons had to meet and by which prison officials were to be judged, regardless of their attitude toward the prisoners in their charge.