Sentence examples for vague objective from inspiring English sources

In late February, close to a hundred fighting groups signed a tenuous accord for the cessation of hostilities — perhaps the first time that quite so many Syrian rebels have agreed to anything besides the vague objective of killing their President.

Their uncertainty about their goals means that they rarely feel they have succeeded, and their careers are consequently often dominated by the pursuit of a single vague objective.

So Obama presumes that a nuclear capable (something we have yet to define) Iran is inimical to American national interests without specifying what they are beyond the vague objective of maintaining stability in the region which, he declares, would be disturbed by a "nuclear Iran".

There's a better chance the person will agree to a specific action, rather than a vague objective.

"Stop the greed" and "get out of our pockets" are euphemisms for vague objectives.

It's important for international policymakers to have more streamlined targets to follow, otherwise they run the risk of just "tick-boxing vague objectives" without really considering their long-term impact.

There are still occasional frustrations with vocabulary or vague objectives, but the big issue of control has been sorted in the simplest of manners – you can now use the D pad to move Maxwell around – and it's perhaps even more churlish this time round to pick holes in the vocabulary when you can, for example, create a zombie bathtub or a friendly dinosaur.

When first announced to the public at a 30 September 2003 press conference at the National Press Club in Washington D.C., the Roadmap was little more than an ambitious set of vague objectives.

The President began this mission with very vague objectives and lots of unanswered questions.

Last year he agreed to increase the number of troops in Afghanistan, even as critics continue to slam the war for its vague objectives.

Shlaim says that while the wording was vague, its objective "was to clear the interior of the country of hostile and potentially hostile Arab elements and in this sense it provided a warrant for expelling civilians".