After that a tangled web was woven, whereby outsmarting the Tories became the supreme objective.
Machiavelli had stated with unblinking realism how, in fact, tyrants behave, and, far from criticizing their conduct or distinguishing between the just prince who rules by law and the tyrant whose laws are in his own breast, he considers that the successful ruler has to be beyond morality, since the safety and expansion of the state are the supreme objective.
Wonder, not accuracy, realism, naturalism or truth, was the supreme objective of Greek sculptors.
With so much on offer, standing out from the pretenders has become a supreme objective in the studio, on the stage, and everywhere in between.
"Free, Independent and United Armenia" is the party's main slogan, and was adopted as its "supreme objective" in the 10th Party Congress in Paris (1924 25).
In the 'minefields' of partitioned landscapes, contemplating one's fieldwork, unless retroactively, is a luxury for leaving the 'minefield' alive is, literally, one of the supreme research objectives.
"We are firmly convinced the exclusion of gay and lesbian people from the institution of civil marriage does not substantially further any important governmental objective," the supreme court wrote in its decision.
Prima facie, there is a gap between the rationalist's objective order and a set of prescriptions binding on our wills; if a supreme legislator must be re-introduced in order to make the conformity of our actions to that objective order binding on our wills, then the alleged existence of the objective moral order does not do the work the account asks of it in the first place.
Whatever the supreme court decides, the government should be much more transparent about its objectives in the negotiations, in some detail, and the sooner the better.
In their petition, the prosecutors ask the US supreme court justices to consider whether Wisconsin's top judicial panel was truly objective in reaching its decision to shut them down.
