Sentence examples for a peripheral goal from inspiring English sources

The No. 1 ranking is a peripheral goal.

And even for a neo-expressivist like Bar-On, who is concerned to identify possible sources of epistemic warrant for avowals, explaining why subjects' attitudes towards the mental states they self-ascribe epistemically qualifies as knowledge is, at most, a peripheral goal.

Carver and Scheier (1990, p. 23) noted that "it seems that discrepancies noted by the meta system have greater emotional impact when they concern a central element of the self than when they bear only on a more peripheral goal (a program or a sequence of action).

Apart from the redemptive, spiritual, and social goals of monastic systems, most of them tolerate peripheral goals that may be rather mundane.

After a fairly productive 2006-07 the striker played only a peripheral role this season Appearances 17 (11 as sub) Goals 5 Yellow cards Carlos Tevez 8 His penchant for scoring crucial goals has been a feature of United's season.

Improving students' reasoning skills needs to become a central goal of education and not a peripheral one for the children of the rich.

Aguero was largely a peripheral figure in the first half, the second Moscow goal calling out to him to provide the answer.

Only seven minutes were left on the clock when Josh Kennedy, a peripheral figure throughout this World Cup campaign, scored the decisive goal shortly after entering the fray.

Despite goals against England and Slovakia, Bale had often been a peripheral figure before Monday night.

"This was a peripheral issue".

I said I had a peripheral role.