objective
Example Sentences
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Over the past two decades, as Europe’s economy slumped, the EU shifted from focusing primarily on integrating its markets to other objectives, such as working to protect citizens’ online privacy.
A short-term objective is to shield a southern highway where many traffic accidents have occurred due to poor visibility during dust storms.
From Barron's
The joint statement outlines the terms of "de-escalation", which includes ceasing "attacks on civilians, civilian objects and infrastructures, and military objectives of either side".
From BBC
Both moves have the same objective: preserving a system still shaken by last summer’s 12-day war with Israel and by sanctions that have sent the economy spiraling.
But he says he has learned how to adapt to two demanding life objectives.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
