Yet as Mr. Romney has relied on negative campaigns to win the primary, his standing has fallen among a wider swath of voters he may need to achieve his ultimate goal: confronting Mr. Obama in a fall campaign.
Can students demonstrate their mastery of learning goals without confronting unnecessary obstacles that may, in fact, discriminate against some of them unfairly?
But now, we have to get ready for cricket, and suffer the dual anxiety of setting unachievably high goals while confronting our own declining ability.
The Bush administration, for its part, has signaled its determination to keep the tensions in the Middle East from distracting it from its goal of confronting Iraq.
Cameron said it was part of his goal of confronting "the menace of extremism and those who want to tear us apart".
Mr. Trump strongly hinted last week that his goal in confronting trading partners was a negotiated settlement, as opposed collecting billions of dollars from new tariffs.
Mr. Obama has emphasized the importance of enlisting the Iraqi army and other local players in confronting this scourge, a goal with which we wholeheartedly concur.
Stung by the rising violence that threatens to engulf the Middle East in chaos and impede the White House's goal of confronting Saddam Hussein, President Bush has been forced to abandon his clear stance in the presidential campaign, when he was against high-stakes diplomacy to forge a settlement in the region.
Moreover, while the goal of confronting communism may be politically defensible, the methods that the group pursued elicited heavy complaint.
It marked the first time AIDS and the goal of confronting the disease's stigma was included in a preschool curriculum.
In 1996, Stephen made use of his background in business development and his degree in physics to found Paradigm Research Group with the goal of confronting the US government about the whole "UFOs are being kept a secret by our political overlords" thing.
