Sentence examples for unambitious target from inspiring English sources
So legislation on a tougher target is required although Japan, the frontrunner in green cars, has set an unambitious target of only 138g by 2015.
"We are not going to address poverty and create opportunity while 60 per cent of young people from poor households fail even to achieve the old and unambitious target to secure five GCSEs at C grade or higher, including English and maths.
But the toothless mechanism combined with unambitious targets has failed to give any impetus to renewables in India".
Welsh Liberal Democrats leader Kirsty Williams said: "It is bad enough that people in Wales have to put up with a government that is less ambitious than those in England and Scotland, but for those unambitious targets to not be met just compounds that misery.
Renault reported mediocre-looking financial results and an unambitious profit target for the year, but investors were well pleased, probably because bad news is now the new normal.
Rachel White of Sustrans said that when it came to active travel, "we're doing something wrong", while Joe Irving of Living Streets called the government's walking targets "unambitious, conservative and cautious", citing its ambition that people should conduct one stage of a journey on foot 300 times a year, or less than once a day.
Now, the government's climate advisers, the independent Committee on Climate Change, are warning that a dash for gas could be illegal, causing the UK to miss the already relatively unambitious emissions reduction targets laid out in the Climate Change Act.
But experts may see the target as unambitious given the country's potential.
But Age UK calls these targets "desperately unambitious… and will be too late, sadly, for many of today's pensioners", it concludes.
The Lords communications committee has suggested such targets are unambitious and could soon be out of date as the speeds required for internet connections increase to cope with new services such as online television.
Green groups growl that the 40% target is woefully unambitious, and that the renewables and energy-efficiency goals should have been made nationally binding.
