Sentence examples for clear-cut targets from inspiring English sources

While these problems are not unique to China, the central government's requirement that institutions commit to clear-cut targets for positions in major global ranking systems such as QS or Times Higher Education within a stated time period, mainly by publishing articles in indexed journals, sets China apart.

"We believe this agreement must be something very tangible with clear-cut targets, and that it be reviewed and examined every five years," said Dr Patrick Ignatius Gomes, the chairman of the African-Caribbean Pacific group of states.

Although Administration officials continued to leave open the possibility of a military move, they acknowledged in telephone interviews that the Government was having trouble finding the kind of clear-cut target that would meet President Reagan's criteria for attacking Libya.

This study provides for the first time clear-cut target genes for metabolic engineering, beyond the three genes of the β-lactam pathway.

2. Scope of Work Provide technical support and assistance to develop an action plan on prevention of online abuse for  October 2015 March 20162016 with clear cut targets and key progress indicators highlighted.

Only 51% established clear-cut sustainability targets.

Whereas the 1992 Rio conference agreement was a soft law, the Kyoto Protocol was a hard law, with clear-cut reduction targets of greenhouse gas emissions for regions and countries.

We pointed our weapons at clear-cut civilian targets, we made use of phosphorus, we deliberately and systematically destroyed thousands of homes and public buildings.

Prior to analysis, we defined changes as potentially important if, after rounding off fractions, either there was more than a 5% change or the 95% CI for the change excluded 0. In the absence of clear-cut national targets for reduction for each risk factor, we judged that a 5% or more change over a 5-year period was potentially important irrespective of the 95% CI.

In contrast to the clear-cut visual target code observed in FEF visual activity, the movement activity of both VM and M neurons showed a somewhat more distributed coding scheme (Fig. 10), but overall preferentially coded for final gaze position relative to initial eye orientation (Figs 8 and 10) with a significant shift away from a target code toward a gaze scheme (Fig. 11).

The general message is clear-cut: all p63 targets involved in transcriptional regulation vary during differentiation, albeit to different extents and in different directions.