Sentence examples for sounding goal from inspiring English sources

Signaling a shift toward support for shale gas development, Ukraine's minister of energy and coal, Yuri A. Boiko, met with American shale gas executives in Houston this year and announced a once far-fetched sounding goal for Ukraine to become self-sufficient in natural gas.

While "ecological civilization" sometimes has lofty sounding goals and minority people wonder about their role, efforts such as this for an efficacious industrial ecology are noteworthy.

But beyond vague pledges about regional cooperation, a communique issued by the leaders was short on details about how a raft of lofty sounding goals, including protecting human rights and expanding trade, would be accomplished.

It's built around three high sounding goals: Getting all students to graduate from high school, to have access to college and be prepared for it, and to have access and pathways to careers.

Four years ago, in Lisbon, European leaders set out the grand-sounding goal of making the EU "the world's most competitive economy" by 2010.

The team set the impossible-sounding goal of creating products whose functionality would resemble that of the division's existing infotainment systems, but at half the price and one-third the cost.

But in his initial letter to Clarke, a science-fiction writer, engineer, and shipwreck explorer living in Ceylon, Kubrick began with the modest-sounding goal of making "the proverbial 'really good' science-fiction movie".

But in his initial letter to Clarke, a science-fiction writer, engineer, and shipwreck explorer living in Ceylon, Kubrick began with the modest-sounding goal of making "the proverbial 'really good' science-fiction movie". Kubrick wanted his film to explore "the reasons for believing in the existence of intelligent extraterrestrial life," and what it would mean if we discovered it.

David Anderson Bronxville, N.Y., Sept. 10, 2007 To the Editor: While trumpeting the noble-sounding goal of spreading American ideals of freedom and religious tolerance abroad, the Bush administration and its Justice Department minions have once again showed just how little regard they have for the same ideals at home.

So it came as a surprise when NBCC announced this week a rather unscientific-sounding goal: to end breast cancer by 2020.

He started with the modest-sounding goal of speeding work flow for the medical technicians who use his machines by building software that can automatically download patient information.