Sentence examples for objectives against from inspiring English sources

Each time, Winters led from the front while making crucial tactical decisions that achieved their objectives against sometimes overwhelming odds.

And so, some of these efforts, I think, through the Iraqi interlocutors, are ones that, again, are trying to advance our common objectives against Isil".

But since that is an extremely long-term goal, Dana-Farber needed to define interim objectives against which to measure centers' progress.

For this, we take a disciplined approach that aligns our design and implementation with a clear set of objectives against which we can evaluate our work.

It was not the first time since Sept. 11 that the Bush administration has had to balance its pursuit of military objectives against its concerns about human rights in South and Central Asia.

ITV has to try to reconcile these conflicting objectives against a background of a dominant plc company seeking to strip out cost and eliminate the duplication of production resource.

The controller must achieve its objective against all possible choices of the environment.

Obama has phrased missions like this before to avoid over-promising: famously, with his 2009 "disrupt, dismantle and defeat" objective against al-Qaida.

In each step of the Ukrainian conflict, he has weighed the benefits of each move, from the point of view of this strategic objective, against the costs.

Mr. Stoppard always has several things on his mind, and the broader issues in "Night and Day" include exploitation and corruption in the third world, journalistic ethics ("Are we objective for or objective against?"), freedom of the press ("She's all for a free press, it's just the newspapers she can't stand") and marital infidelity ("hotel rooms shouldn't count as infidelity").

This gradual approach would balance the risk of tightening monetary policy too quickly, which could lead to an abrupt slowing in the economy and inflation moving below the Committee's objective, against the risk of moving too slowly, which could engender inflation persistently above the objective and possibly contribute to a buildup of financial imbalances.