"cherished goal" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
It can be used to refer to a goal or dream that is deeply desired and treasured by someone. Example: Despite facing many challenges and setbacks, Angela never gave up on her cherished goal of becoming a successful lawyer.
To break it, each side will have to give up at least one cherished goal.
Their cherished goal -- the resettlement of the full biblical land of Israel by contemporary Jews -- is not to be.
But every extra day of EU membership reminds Brexiters that they have failed to deliver their cherished goal.
It allowed Republicans their cherished goal of keeping taxes low on the richest 2 percent of Americans, and even gave multimillionaires and billionaires new estate tax benefits.
But the compromise without which the deal might not have happened was the Tories' offer to hold a referendum on the Lib Dems' cherished goal of electoral reform.
From the beginning, it has achieved, with ruthless efficiency, its most cherished goal — to make businesses more profitable and less accountable, and to make the rich fabulously richer.
That has had marked socio-economic effects that chime with some of the EU's most cherished goals.
Along with the right of return, a shared Jerusalem is one of the Palestinians' most cherished goals.
In the best Washington tradition, Mr Obama and the Republicans struck a deal on December 6th to abandon their supposedly cherished goals while awarding themselves expensive consolation prizes and putting the problem off for a couple of years.
Republicans enjoyed sweeping wins at the state level in elections last November, allowing the party's representatives to advance cherished goals during the short, intense legislative sessions under way in state capitals.
They are mostly aimed at deferring the economic pain, and offering treats to woo Republicans who are wary of an enterprise that, along with health-care reform, has been one of Barack Obama's most cherished goals.
