Sentence examples for more immediate target from inspiring English sources

Martin Brodeur entered the Devils' game Thursday seeking his 103rd career shutout to tie Terry Sawchuk's N.H.L. record, but he was after a more immediate target: he had not been the winning goalie in regulation at Madison Square Garden since Dec. 17, 2006, an eight-game stretch.

But even if the ultimate goal is to substantially reduce under-70 mortality, halving under-50 mortality would be a more immediate target and could be achieved worldwide by 2030 (or in the 2030s).

Given his predicament, keeping his job for the next few weeks may be a more immediate target, but with the next league game away to Arsenal there is little sign of respite.

But setting more immediate targets is proving much harder.

The officials say the group's recruiting campaign is currently aimed at young fighters across the Middle East, North Africa and Central Asia who are less inclined to plan and carry out far-reaching global attacks and who have focused their energies on more immediate targets.

Though Medvedev despises the glittering petroligarchs and ex-K.G.B. autocrats who make the news out of Russia such depressing reading, he has found more immediate targets for his scorn among his well-meaning peers in the Russian culture industry.

Al Qaeda was using sophisticated Web sites and sleeper cells across the Middle East, North Africa and Central Asia to enlist young fighters who were less patient or inclined to plan and carry out far-reaching global attacks and who had instead redirected their energies on more immediate targets and on fomenting insurgency in Pakistan, the officials said.

Its aim will be to find new ways of ending extreme poverty by 2030, as well as meeting more immediate targets: for example, providing digitised agricultural data (market prices, weather warnings) by mobile phone to 42m small farmers in Africa within five years, and providing affordable off-grid energy to 40m people.

However, more immediate interventions targeting socio-economic inequality and social mobility by focusing on income-level interventions that move families out of poverty have also been associated with improvements in mental health [ 32, 33].

Under pressure from the Army, Blandy agreed to crowd more ships into the immediate target area than the Navy wanted, but he refused USAAF Major General Curtis LeMay's demand that "every ship must have a full loading of oil, ammunition, and fuel".

A more immediate representation of the target's actual sensory-somaesthetic experiences is also suggested by stronger activations in areas involved in coding the immediate and first-hand sensory consequences of pain - such as the posterior parts of the insula, the thalamus or the hippocampus.