legitimate goal
collocation in Englishmeaningsoflegitimateandgoal
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legitimate
adjective
uk/ləˈdʒɪt.ə.mət/us/ləˈdʒɪt̬.ə.mət/
allowed ...
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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 oflegitimateandgoalfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
Examplesoflegitimate goal
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But we fail to see how turning pretrial detainees into the unwilling objects of the latest reality show serves any of these legitimate goals.
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As if there were only one operative orlegitimategoal.
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However, setting the 'reader' a puzzle is alegitimategoalfor an advertiser, and may well help to make an advertisement more memorable.
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Is preventing birth defects alegitimategoal?
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Although it is alegitimategoalfor the government to keep costs under control, we believe that administrative arrangements that involve the exclusion of the over-65s are unacceptable.
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It says that the act also complies with international standards and pursues alegitimategoal.
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I hope that they will not give up the fight but will continue to fight with added vigour towards what is a just andlegitimategoal.
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He had a goal disallowed that day, an effort that he still maintains was alegitimategoal.
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Since saluting the flag was a primary means of achieving thislegitimategoal, an issue of national importance was at stake.
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Fantasy is an element of entertainment, which is alegitimategoalof media content.
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Because both types of objectives are legitimate goals of sociolinguistics, blaming an apple for not being an orange seems rather pointless.
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As a result, abandoning the existing political system and replacing it with a more democratic one seemed to be legitimate goals.
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Even deliberate attempts by nation-builders to diffuse a single common language across the state can be seen as promoting legitimate goals.
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My position is that both thinkers have identified legitimate goals.
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Realists believe that states should assume the worst of actors, and resign themselves to the use of unsavoury means in pursuit of their legitimate goals in an unforgiving world.
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The extension of choice and diversity in education may appear to be perfectly legitimate goals.
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