Sentence examples for vague targets from inspiring English sources

Anything else leads to vague targets like "working harder" and don't support good quality learning.

Even so, our analysis at the Institution of Civil Engineers suggests that the city should avoid setting vague targets and focus on policy.

Instead of telling staff what they should be doing, policy governance tells them what they can't do, and they're empowered to achieve critical and core goals, rather than given vague targets subject to capricious micromanagement.

After all the small skirmishes and ambushes, after months of lobbing tons of bombs and shells on vague targets in Free Strike Zones, the size, complexity, and careful coördination of the Cedar Falls operation satisfied the military men's taste for careful large-scale planning.

It was a 125-page smorgasbord of vague targets and nitty-gritty measures, from "ensuring the UK remains one of the top destinations for foreign direct investment", to redrafting the little known Outer Space Act to capitalise on the UK's strength in building space vehicles.

"There was a vague target".

After weeks of speculation, Sony confirmed at a press conference in Tokyo on Wednesday March 15th that it would delay the launch of its long-awaited PlayStation 3 (PS3) games console from "spring" (a deliberately vague target that was widely assumed to mean late May) to November.

Out will go the vaguely targeted shotgun approach ads of TV and print.

Senator Nick Xenophon has slammed the growing trend of companies paying million-dollar bonuses to chief executives for hitting vague performance targets.

There are many other Congressional actions that could also improve Washington's atmosphere: proposing specific cuts in spending instead of threatening to force the country into default if vague spending targets are not met; reducing the use of committee subpoenas as weapons of partisan attack; ending the ability of individual senators to hold up presidential nominations.

He argues that the language in the official Chinese announcement of the new measures "indicates for the first time that local leaders in China will be on the hook not just for vague, gameable targets like total emissions reductions, but actual improvements in measured ambient air quality".