Sentence examples for objective rather than from inspiring English sources
As with national interest and results-ownership, the debate is about the spirit of this objective rather than the words themselves.
Mr. Cheney said Mr. Obama's outreach to Iran's leaders "has committed America to an Iran strategy that seems to treat engagement as an objective rather than a tactic".
Another questioner wants to know whether "saving the eurozone" is now the ECB's prime objective, rather than keeping inflation under control (not a question you can easily imagine being asked a few years ago).
Only the United Nations can authorize military action to disarm an aggressor, to ensure that disarmament is the real objective rather than a particular country's political or commercial interests.
Some members were concerned that buying Treasuries "might be seen as an indication that the Federal Reserve was responding to a fiscal objective rather than its statutory mandate, thus reducing the Federal Reserve's credibility regarding long-run price stability".
While not prescribing it as a silver bullet – "it is the policy objective rather than the precise institutional framework which is important" – the committee has a vision of various integrated models "one of which in some areas will almost certainly be care trusts", said chair Stephen Dorrell.
Realpolitik, politics based on practical objectives rather than on ideals.
Yet it may be that these become long‑term objectives rather than short‑term realities.
Their responses to problems are typically pragmatic ones that aim to satisfy all of these objectives rather than to maximize performance in relation to any one of them.
In both countries, as unions consolidated their organization on independent and sectional lines, collaboration became a means of securing common legislative objectives rather than concerting industrial activity.
The successors of Otto pursued German objectives rather than imperial mirages and struggled with Bolesław, who briefly occupied Bohemia and intervened in Kievan Rus.
