If it's repealed or swept aside, both left and right might be able to focus on a more plausible goal: not a perfectly universal system, but more modest reforms that would help the hardest-pressed among the uninsured.
He mused that some expert on the country suggested that, at some future date, administrative control of Kabul and the North would be separated from the less plausible goal of administering the South, but he was not advocating such a shift at this, or any near, date.
A more plausible goal to promote would be something like the ratio of true belief to false belief.
Learning about treatment effectiveness with a view to treat patients in the larger outside population, as in the traditional fixed randomised design, may not be a plausible goal.
However, agronomical solutions such as regulated deficit irrigation are directly linked to basin water conservation because they goal is to reduce transpiration with little or no yield penalty. Optimising water productivity is a plausible goal in some situations; however, in others it clashes with profit maximization, food production and food security.
Now, I see that long-term relationships are a plausible goal – and that they don't necessarily have to be based on black-and-white monogamy.
Recognizing that addiction is not "created" by shady doctors or drug dealers but by a complex tangle of developmental experience is crucial, as is realizing that reducing drug-related harm not use is the only plausible goal.
In molecular biology, explaining the existence of a phenotype or disease by 'finding the gene(s) for it' is a plausible goal; in systems biology it is just a starting point for investigation.
(2) Gesture appeared targeted at a specific and plausible goal for the signaller, e.g. aimed towards attainment of something the signaller has already shown interest in, at the time of gesturing or in similar previous circumstances.
