Sentence examples for goal lies from inspiring English sources

A soccer goal lies on its side.

He knows where the goal lies.

The quickest way to upgrade the labor force to meet Mr. Obama's goal lies in immigration reform that admits more well-educated foreigners.

Sounds great on paper, but if the way to this goal lies through productions like "Wild About Harry," somebody, please, stop the bus and let me off.

The moderate, conscious eater — the flexitarian — knows where the goal lies: a diet that's higher in plants and lower in both animal products and hyperprocessed foods, the stuff that makes up something like three-quarters of what's sold in supermarkets.

Aristotle calls this friendship "perfected" or "completed" because its goal lies wholly within the relationship itself, and does not treat it as merely instrumental for some other or further end.

I'd thought my goal lay through the gates of its medina, but like Achilles and the tortoise I'd spent more than a week merely marching closer.

A better job of informing the public of where obstacles to achieving our mutual goal lie and of the clear and effective bill I have sponsored to tighten the law limiting corporate contributions certainly would help to realize our common objective.

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Atletico took advantage and went ahead four minutes later, the responsibility for the goal lying predominantly with veteran Real and Spain goalkeeper Casillas.

We found that posterior hippocampal activity increased the closer, and more directly ahead, the goal lay.