"salient goal" is a grammatically correct and usable phrase in written English.
It means an important or prominent goal. You can use it in any context where you want to emphasize the significance or priority of a particular goal. Example sentence: "Increasing profits was his salient goal, and he implemented several strategies to achieve it."
The most salient goal, he rightly observes, is "thickening the web among China's wary neighbors, who have a shared interest in keeping China from using force to upend the existing order".
With career development being an equally salient goal, the NFL has improved its program to assist all potential candidates in developing the necessary skills to be successful.
A salient goal for the 2000 survey was to generate baseline data on Arizona healthcare systems for comparison with a projected follow-up survey.
The salient goal of the present study was the in-depth identification and verification of polyadenylated transcript isoforms, which are unannotated in latest database extracts.
Policy responses then become about improving access to health care, displacing the more salient goal of improving health, and ignoring the socioeconomic conditions that created the vulnerability in the first place (18).
On each occasion, participants noted their most salient goal, and then rated the extent to which this goal was important and the extent to which they were successfully accomplishing this goal.
And unlike ascriptions of "knowledge that," ascriptions of "knowledge what" are appropriate only relative to one's goals or purposes in a context (Boër & Lycan 1986, Braun 2006, DeRose 2009, ch. 2, appendix).[22] Hence, whether it is apt to say "Oscar knows what he thinks" partly depends on contextually salient goals or purposes.
The best choice is "you" because personally salient goals are more motivating.
When an individual loses contact with his life value, he may sacrifice long-term behavioral goals and values (e.g., adopting a healthy lifestyle) in the service of decreasing his very salient short-term goals (e.g., reducing present discomfort).
A set of facts essential for making an informed decision and a set of goals salient for the decision were generated and then rated by a convenience sample of osteoarthritis patients (n = 88) and a multidisciplinary group of clinical experts (n = 51) [ 10].
The results indicate that even when a fuel saving or time saving goal is salient, safety goals are still given highest priority when interactions with other road users take place and when interacting with a traffic light.
