Sentence examples for provisional target from inspiring English sources

The Observer reported on Sunday that the US was considering a "provisional target" at Copenhagen.

Industry insiders believed EDF had set aside a provisional target of June due to an array of uncertainties involving the the UK government, China and Austria.

The White House said on Wednesday that the president would present a provisional target at the Copenhagen summit meeting on climate next month to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.

"By announcing a provisional target, contingent on the support of Congress, the president has defined a path to an international agreement that challenges the developed and developing nations to fulfill their obligations," he said.

BEIJING — The Chinese government announced Thursday that it had set a target to slow the growth of its greenhouse gas emissions by 2020, a day after the Obama administration set a provisional target for reducing United States emissions.

Last week, President Obama announced that the United States, the world's second largest emitter of greenhouse gases, after China, would set a provisional target to cut its total greenhouse gas emissions by roughly 17percentt below 2005 levels by 2020, and 83percentt by 2050.

Despite pleas from their European allies, the Americans flatly rejected the idea of setting even provisional targets for reductions in greenhouse gases.

The securities filing listed a provisional fund-raising target of $100 million, which is likely to change over time.

The U.S. has put forward a provisional emissions reduction target in the range of seventeen per cent below 2005 by 2020, and ultimately in line with U.S. energy and climate legislation.

Because the information in such situations is insufficient to constrain one's inferences fully, perceivers must make do with provisional hypotheses about a target's mental states, which remain ambiguous until further clues about their contents are discerned.

The bank's staff had certified that Congo-Brazzaville had met its targets for provisional debt relief.