Sentence examples for set himself the target from inspiring English sources

Those comments maintained a theme first aired last season, when the 52-year-old had set himself the target of remaining Chelsea's manager for another 12 years before a potential spell in charge of Portugal.

Having become one of the best in the world in one code, it is to his credit that he struck out for a new challenge and set himself the target of helping England to the World Cup.

Jenkins – who has set himself the target of making Barclays the "go to" bank – said the cuts would cost another £800m on top of the existing £2.7bn already announced to turn around the group.

In 2013, having achieved everything he could have hoped for in his 24-year career with Britain, the coach set himself the target of bringing home double gold in Rio with both of the men's flagship crews.

Mr Le Pen had set himself the target of 30% but in the past few days seemed to have resigned himself to defeat, even suggesting on Friday that he would be robbed by "electoral fraud".

He set himself the target of running a budget surplus because he thought it would entrench Labour's reputation as the party of deficit deniers, and he imposed a tough welfare cap to show that he supported the "strivers" while the opposition supported "shirkers".

The new mayor has set himself the ambitious target of growing Johannesburg's economy by 5% and cutting unemployment levels to 20%.

The figures are a setback for the chancellor, who has set himself a target of cutting the annual deficit to £55bn this year and to create a surplus by 2019-20.

The Chancellor, George Osborne, has set himself a target of eliminating the structural current deficit (covering day-to-day rather than investment spending) by 2015-16.

When he set himself a target, he achieved it.

In an open letter, Rinehart – who is Fairfax's biggest shareholder with 18.7% of the company – told Roger Corbett he should set himself a performance target of boosting the share price to A87 cents (it's currently 55c (36p)) by the time of the annual general meeting in November, or resign.