Sentence examples for optimistic target from inspiring English sources

Thankfully, that is an optimistic target on the hunters' part.

In the past year exports missed the government's optimistic target of $50 billion by more than half.

The US Open, which was the last of the 14 majors he won in 2008, looks a highly optimistic target in mid-June.

The order is supposed to be extended to all tax-paying buildings by the end of this year, an optimistic target.

There does seem to be a shortfall in recruiting new GPs relative to the optimistic target of 3,250 trainee GPs per year set by the NHS taskforce last year.

Hedging his bets, though, Leanca is also trying to consolidate Moldova's status as a Nato ally, pushing for an EU association agreement as soon as possible and setting a personal, albeit optimistic, target of joining in 2019.

Debbie Abrahams, Labour's shadow minister for disabled people, said the Government was in a "cycle of optimistic targets, contractual underperformance and costly  recovery".

Experts blamed lower tax receipts, but the OBR said it expected stronger than expected growth to play a part in meeting its more optimistic targets for this year and next.

You see (and whisper this) he wasn't quite clever enough to reach the excessively optimistic targets we had clutched out of the sky for him to aim at.

"Today's decision fails to recognise that badger culling is an unsupported approach to tackling bovine TB and one that will leave the majority of the TB problem present, even if it reaches its most optimistic targets".

Most have scaled back their initial optimistic targets, and only one is actually up and running.