Both long predate his presidential campaign, and are therefore likely to be genuine objectives, not merely short-term political ploys.
The reformers may proclaim certain objectives merely to appease the peasants, to undermine opposition, to win international backing, or to safeguard their own positions.
It is argued that China achieved some of its objectives merely by hosting the meeting, using it to showcase its own developing perspectives and institutional innovations, but this will be pretty small beer if global growth fails to hold up.
In the classroom, one of the objectives has been merely to get electricity in every school.
However, I have advocated achieving that objective, not merely talking about it.
However, an unnamed Israeli minister was reported by Israel Radio as saying that Netanyahu's primary objective was merely to show willingness to negotiate and that he did not intend to engage in a far-reaching peace process.
Fears that Netanyahu could drag out any negotiations were fuelled by an unidentified Israeli government minister saying the prime minister's primary objective was merely to show willingness to negotiate, and that he did not intend to engage in a far-reaching peace process.
The point here is not that we must successfully identify which representations necessarily belong together and which are merely associated contingently, but rather that to be self-conscious we must at least make this general distinction between objective and merely subjective connections of representations.
Unfortunately, too many interpretations of this type deploy the terms "reality," "phenomena," and "appearance" so ambiguously that it can be difficult to tell whether they intend to attribute an objective or merely some subjective existence to the inhabitants of the "phenomenal" world.
At this early stage of the exploratory cycle, the main objective is merely to obtain an indication of the existence or absence of possible prospective areas, not a full delineation of the regional or local geology, or of the prospects themselves.
He examines the contention that the notion of mental handicap has no objective foundation but is merely the agent of oppression, and analyses policies and practices in paediatric medicine in relation to the mentally handicapped.
