millennium goals

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millennium
noun[C]
uk
/mɪˈlen.i.əm/us
/mɪˈlen.i.əm/
a period of 1,000 years, or the time when a period of 1,000 ...
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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 ofmillenniumandgoalfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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Aid must be deployed in a way which guarantees quality and long-range benefit so that we can attain the millennium goals.
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Helping them to move out of that poverty is central to the achievement of the millennium goals.
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The millennium goals are mentioned extensively in the report.
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We must recognise that the pace of progress towards reaching the millennium goals is different in different parts of the world.
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It is generally recognized that the millennium goals cannot be met without advances in women's reproductive health and rights.
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Removing barriers and creating fairer trade rules is a vital route towards meeting the millennium goals.
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Access to education is so important; it is one of the millennium goals that we most want to achieve.
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Globally, although we may be moving towards achieving the millennium goals, we are not moving fast enough to achieve them by 2015.
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However, while we are in government we shall remain committed to ensuring that the millennium goals will be implemented.
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It will not be a matter of failing to reach the millennium goals, but of falling further behind them.
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There is increasing recognition that the heavily indebted poor countries initiative is not good enough and will not by itself achieve the millennium goals on debt.
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Does he share my anxiety that, if we do not do more, we will find it difficult to reach the millennium goals for the reduction of maternal and infant mortality?
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We are all aware, from a global point of view, of the millennium goals to eradicate poverty and increase access to primary education, clean water, health care and the like.
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