objectives

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“Hard targets are at least visible and enforceable. Softer objectives are harder to measure and harder to embed in the cadre evaluation system.”

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 28, 2026

Hemani instead insists that courts examine not merely whether two laws share a surface characteristic but whether they target the same conduct, pursue the same objectives, and operate in roughly the same way.

From Slate • Jun. 26, 2026

As warfare automation increases, its use is being guided more by battlefield objectives than by codified rules of engagement.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 19, 2026

Foreign policy, by contrast, is designed to meet short-term objectives, while building and maintaining the conditions for longer-term security, absent the pressures linked to growing a developed economy.

From Barron's • Jun. 17, 2026

Unfortunately, these two objectives were directly at odds with each other, and Galileo’s success at the second undermined his rather half-hearted efforts at the first.

From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton