Sentence examples for lesser goals from inspiring English sources

The United States sacrificed the goal of promoting democracy, human rights and law to the lesser goals of its drug policy.

"They might have joined a gym or bought some home-exercise kit, but without identifying these lesser goals, most people typically lose their initial motivation".

Life is thus the ultimate value for all organisms, not only because all other values are a means to preserving it but also because it sets a standard of evaluation for all lesser goals (and all things generally): that which preserves life is good, and that which threatens or destroys life is evil.

Survival is the organism's ultimate value, the "final goal or end to which all [its] lesser goals are the means," and the standard of all its other values: "that which furthers its life is the good, that which threatens it is the evil" (pp. 16 17).

"We have glimpsed Reality, and this has made us oblivious of lesser goals".

And so, in my daily and long-term decisions, this goal takes precedence over my other lesser goals.

Why settle for a lesser goal?

From the day she was bought by the wine magnate Jess Jackson, she was destined to the court of his champion stallion and two-time Horse of the Year, Curlin, with no lesser goal than the creation of a superhorse.

Connecticut was one of the first states to alter its standards in response to the federal law, distinguishing between its original goal for children, "mastery," which it is continuing to use internally, and a new lesser goal of proficiency, under which 80percentt of public school students have already met success.

The result means that if Manchester City win their game in hand against Aston Villa, they will return to the Premier League summit on goal difference, and should Rodgers' side miss out on the title due to a lesser goal difference, he will no doubt look to the Reds' leaking defence this season.

But he also set a slightly lesser goal, saying the meeting would be where the two leaders would "start drawing the contours of the long-awaited peace," a phrase that seemed to indicate that a deal on some general principles might also be enough.