initial goal
collocation in Englishmeaningsofinitialandgoal
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initial
adjective[before noun]
uk/ɪˈnɪʃ.əl/us/ɪˈnɪʃ.əl/
of or at ...
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goal
noun[C]
uk/ɡəʊl/us/ɡoʊl/
an area on a playing field, that usually has two posts with a net fixed behind them, where players try to send the ball in order to score in sports such as football ...
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(Definition ofinitialandgoalfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
Examplesofinitial goal
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Theinitialgoalfor the player is to stay alive and secure sufficient living conditions to enable further progress in the game.
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They used their success to achieve theirinitialgoalof producing movies.
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Theinitialgoalof the project was to bring together women working in the intersections of art, media, and technology for a meal and discussion.
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Itsinitialgoalwas to prepare high school students from demographics underrepresented in science, medicine, and technology, for higher education in those fields.
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Theinitialgoalwas to provide a fresh air experience for children from the city whose behavior negated other summer options.
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This should not be confused with the notion of aninitialgoal.
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A key aim is therefore engagement of the patient, with theinitialgoalof treatment often harm minimization rather than cure.
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Theinitialgoalwas regime survival, and the means to achieve this was to be as complete as possible elimination of the perceived ' racial ' enemy.
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Then, suppose on the contrary that theinitialgoalhas an even number of atoms.
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Indeed, suppose that theinitialgoalhas an odd number of atoms.
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For fatiguing illness, a reasonableinitialgoalis to infer some properties of the latent liability.
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In these cases, one can certainly argue that grammars risk defeating theirinitialgoalof visual clarity, thereby losing part of its usefulness.
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Theinitialgoalof the service is to make a diagnosis of the cause of incontinence.
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With theinitialgoalatomic, the extracted resultants are program clauses: the partial deduction of the atom.
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As a consequence, the interfaces developed, although they manage to accomplish theirinitialgoalquite satisfactorily, could not always tackle the unpredictability of the natural language successfully.
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This assumption, that we reconsider in section 4.4, makes that the specialised program can be extracted from the main tree, the tree that starts from theinitialgoal.
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Theinitialgoalis to test the premise that different stripes, identified histologically, are physiologically distinct: hence it is logically impermissible to use physiological characteristics as determinants of stripe borders.
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Indeed, they are sensible only to a specific structural extract (the skeleton) of the applied clauses and theinitialgoalin the story of a derivation.
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Theinitialgoalfor total number of federal external connections and internet points of presence was 50.
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The camp was hugely successful and surpassedinitialgoalof treating 1000 patients.
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