Sentence examples for unattainable objectives from inspiring English sources

If Ehud Olmert made the mistake of outlining clear but unattainable objectives in 2006's Lebanon war, this time there was no clarity at all.

The frustration is especially poignant when widening intergroup contacts make the frustrated segment more vitally aware of its disadvantages, when its members have been encouraged by education or a public policy statement to aspire to relatively unattainable objectives, and when a period of steadily improving conditions is suddenly interrupted.

Bombing jihadist radicals, supporting authoritarian regimes, taking sides in sectarian conflict, playing multiple sides in Syria, hectoring allied states, and pursuing new but still unattainable objectives in the Middle East offer a multitude of opportunities for bloody blowback.

They, after all, have set themselves the huge and probably unattainable objective of making America safe from terrorist attack.

But what exactly are we supposed to find so horrendous that a coalition of western forces should descend upon the Middle East with the unattainable objective of restoring some kind of order acceptable to western interests?

Reischauer notes that those who have promised to "'pay down' or 'reduce' the national debt" are pursuing "an absurd and unattainable objective for the short or even intermediate term — meaning the next seven or so years.

Complete elimination of any natural toxin from foods is an unattainable objective.

Taken together, these observations imply: (i) a zero risk of disclosure is an unattainable objective and should never be promised, and; (ii) it may well be reasonable to try to strike a balance between the scientific value of a particular set of data, and the risk that it may lead to disclosure.

Promiscuity married to aloofness, as the unattainable object of desire.

The World Cup is the exotic, unattainable object of fascination.

We argue that a) true economic optimality is an unattainable PES objective and improving PES cost-effectiveness is a more realistic aspiration, and that b) current PES programs actually prevent cost-effectiveness analyses because they lack appropriate ecosystem service definitions and thus output measurements.