Improving patient safety and reforming the broken medical liability system are not mutually exclusive goals.
Tissue antigenicity is maximised and anatomical detail preserved, normally two mutually exclusive goals.
Improving the quality of code and boosting developer productivity are not mutually exclusive goals.
Theory told us that NATO enlargement and a NATO-Russia relationship would be mutually exclusive goals.
"They recognized that serving the public and protecting their membership are not mutually exclusive goals," Judge Lippman said.
Kanell, for his part, seems to be trying to walk a fine line between mutually exclusive goals.
At the center of the disagreement are two socially desirable but, for now, mutually exclusive goals: noise abatement and increased fertility.
Third, expanding NATO to insure Central European stability and seeking arms reduction at the same time are not mutually exclusive goals.
Behind the dispute, which has been replicated many times across Germany, lies not so much a legal disagreement as the collision of two socially desirable but, for now, mutually exclusive goals: noise abatement and increased fertility.
Yet in the end, the difference is, as Mr. Nye put it, not between two mutually exclusive goals but between two visions of attaining the same goal: more justice in a better world.
PHILIP K. HOWARD Chairman, Common Good New York, May 17, 2013 To the Editor: Enhancing quality in medicine and fairness in the civil justice system are not mutually exclusive goals.
