Sentence examples for had set targets from inspiring English sources

In 1979, Howe had set targets for the growth of "broad money" which included a wide range of bank deposits.

More than half of companies said they had set targets and goals to better manage their water supply.

In the same way, the local schemes had set targets to cut burglary by between 1% and 16%; Whitehall ordered a cut of 25% from all of them.

The US and China had set targets that would cause a catastrophic 4C rise in global temperature, much higher than the 2C target set by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC).

Until recently, he said, New England regulators had set targets only for total catches instead of setting strict quotas under which any excess catch would be deducted from the following year's quota.

The priority given by cancer network managers to collection of data by services, rather than to the use of data for management, reflected the priorities of central government, which had set targets for completeness (especially for waiting times) rather than supporting networks in the more complex role of understanding and interpreting available data.

They've set targets and if we don't meet them, the company pays a fine.

I think it's helpful that the government has set targets.

According to the report, 81% of the world's 500 largest companies have set targets to reduce their carbon footprints.

The government has set targets of doubling exports to Brazil and bilateral trade with Mexico by 2015.

There are more tangible ends in view: the government, for example, has set targets for increasing cultural tourism to Britain once the games have finished.