Sentence examples for professed goal from inspiring English sources

His professed goal of becoming prime minister is fanciful.

For many of the early partisans, the professed goal is more about changing the world than about making money.

As Marina Hyde points out, he has at least scored his long professed goal of not being prime minister.

Denton's professed goal was to tear asunder the establishment's secret arrangements and self-dealing, to explode hypocrisies.

Abu Sayyaf's professed goal was for an independent state encompassing the Philippines' Muslim population, to be governed according to Sharīʿah law.

Taleb's "fragility" suggests that the professed goal of peacemakers on both sides, the two-state solution, with its presumption of national self-determination, is itself a recipe for disintegration.

The European Union rotates the top leadership post among its members in half-year increments, irrespective of their size or, in some cases, commitment to its professed goals.

The question for these western states is whether their antagonistic approach towards Syria has achieved any of the US and EU's professed goals.

But judged in terms of the professed goals of disarming Kim, securing stability in Northeast Asia and preventing the proliferation of nuclear weapons and missiles to deliver them, this approach has been a landmark failure.

Professed goals of punishment, norms constraining the use of power in the pursuit of these goals, the aspiration for justice in punishment all these, if Foucault is right, turn out to mask other (not necessarily conscious) intentions among reformers that belie the ostensible rationality (not to say rationalization) of their aims since the Enlightenment.

Smith's war on social science spells doom for his professed goals for American science in general.