Sentence examples for a noble objective from inspiring English sources

"I think it was a noble objective, whether or not it was achieved," Justice Breyer said.

Some have a noble objective: holding to account crooked public servants, police officers and even fellow journalists.

It's a noble objective — one that is no doubt shared by the two other former captives, who were not present in the courtroom.

Olympic gold medallist Carl Lewis, also attending the launch, said it's a noble objective to want to wipe out hunger and extreme poverty, but "are we living up to our words?".

"Solving crimes is a noble objective," he concluded, "but it occupies a lower place in the American pantheon of noble objectives than the protection of our people from suspicionless law enforcement searches.

"Solving unsolved crimes is a noble objective, but it occupies a lower place in the American pantheon of noble objectives than the protection of our people from suspicionless law-enforcement searches".

This means that building an effective nation-state in Pakistan, though an important and noble objective, cannot be our sole solution — nation-building in Pakistan is a twenty to thirty year project, minimum, if indeed it proves possible at all — i.e. nation-building doesn't deliver in the time frame we need.

This government campaign had a simple but noble objective: helping the six-month-long Shanghai Expo reach its target of 70 million visitors, which would shatter Japan's Expo attendance record of 64 million, set in Osaka in 1970.

To others, the noble objective of Kampusareena to become a world-class pioneer in university-industry collaboration and in applying the latest scientific knowledge in practice was considered as an accelerator to improve the understanding and practices of co-creation within their own organisations.

The English philosopher Francis Bacon laid out, to great acclaim, his theories for improving longevity, calling it medicine's "most noble" objective.

But it must also be said that in the years after Sept. 11, the noble objective of bringing people together, of honoring civil servants and other hard-working folks, was largely forgotten.