For most, it has proved unattainable.
While almost 40m people had dropped out of the jobs market altogether as job prospects proved unattainable.
And if that proves unattainable, the widest possible coalition of the willing, ideally including Libya's Arab neighbours, must protect Libyan civilians by arming the opposition and defending them from aerial attack.
The utopian despairs if perfection proves unattainable, but the meliorist – he who seeks to make things better, incrementally, cumulatively, tirelessly – can take new hope from every success, however small: the political prisoner freed, the military junta replaced by democracy, the tyrant brought to book before a court.
When she started working for Walmart, she said, she had expectations that have since proved unattainable.
The creation of the unified force, announced by Egyptian President Abdel Fattah Sisi, has long been an ambition of the 22-member Arab League, but one that had proved unattainable.
A shot at silverware "at home" has proved an unattainable desire but with Dardai in charge, nothing seems quite impossible right now.
His passion for peace inspired us all to believe that with sufficient faith and unyielding will, the seemingly unattainable would prove within our grasp.
But the new study also found a remarkable corollary: those women who could disengage from the unattainable proved less likely to suffer more serious depression in the long run.Mild depressive symptoms can therefore be seen as a natural part of dealing with failure in young adulthood.
Those criteria proved to be unattainable.
