Sentence examples for targets are that from inspiring English sources

But they also failed because of the phenomenon known as Goodhart's Law, named after a former Bank of England director: any measure used to control people – and all targets are that – are bound to be inaccurate.

The targets are that 11,500 boys and girls will be able to continue their education in camps and schools in host communities, 15,000 children will benefit from psychosocial care through child-friendly spaces and 101,650 people will have access to safe drinking water and improved sanitation facilities.

NGDP targeting is that plan.

The target is that "one day" will come in Brazil at the 2014 World Cup.

The party-unifying target is That Man in the White House and his coldblooded coterie of warmongering neocon homophobic tax cutters.

Beck's main target was that politically inconvenient liberation theologian, Jeremiah Wright, but he was on to something.

The original target was that Best Buy Europe would be generating revenues of £6bn £7bn by the end of 2013, with £300m £350m in ebitda earnings, including profit share from the US stores.

But what marks Mr. Pamuk and his targets is that he stands alongside them to receive his own lethal arrows.

But the logic of newsroom cutbacks, and the imposition of targets, is that the heavy will gradually be ousted in favour of the light.

"My understanding of the targets is that they are too simplistic," he continued.

"The thing with targets is that they often displace the problem," says King's Fund director of policy Richard Murray.