"firm goal" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when you're referring to a goal that is well-defined and concrete, with clear plans and processes in place to achieve it. For example: "Establishing a firm goal of reducing energy consumption by 10% in the next year is an important first step in making our organization more sustainable."
As long as the eventual exploration of Mars remains a firm goal, this graduated approach has a number of virtues.
We are not going to do anything precipitous, but unless we set this as a firm goal we will never get it done".
Ward is still digesting the job ahead of him, but he does have general ideas about the U.S.O.C. and one firm goal.
Ms. Liebman said her firm goal as chairwoman had been to "further the policy of this statute, which is to further the practice of collective bargaining, obviously collective bargaining freely chosen".
Naismith had been Rangers' brightest player in the opening quarter and it was his first Old Firm goal that broke the deadlock after a quiet spell of play.
This break is important to recover the players who have injuries as they are important for the team". The Portuguese, 31, has bittersweet memories of his sole Old Firm goal as it came in a 3-2 home defeat last March.
Lacking any firm goals, he said, he drifted into writing about sports for the school newspaper.
The manager, with whom Cerci professes to enjoy a father-son relationship, had set him firm goals for the season – which included getting into the Italy team.
And if this week's climate-change summit in Paris succeeds in establishing firm goals for cutting emissions coal will undoubtedly be the biggest loser.
But it failed to set firm goals for the percentage of people to be provided with treatments or the reduction in disease to be achieved.
Gina McCarthy, commissioner of the Connecticut Department of Environmental Protection, helped fine-tune the legislation into something that the administration of Governor Rell could support: firm goals with a flexible means to achieve them.
