objective
Example Sentences
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The political objective was never achieved at all.
From Salon
“History teaches us a simple lesson: Wars without a clear objective do not stay small. They get bigger, they get bloodier, they get longer, they get more expensive,” Schumer said.
From Los Angeles Times
One of the few bright spots in our education system has been selective-enrollment public high schools, which use standardized tests and other objective measures to determine admissions.
Those goals, he argued, were "scoped and reasonable objectives that can be attained."
From Barron's
“That is one of the lessons from Iraq,” he said, adding it was vital to have “a viable thought-through plan with an objective that can be achieved.”
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
