Collocations withgoal
These are words often used in combination withgoal.
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ambitious goal
Admittedly, this may seem like an overly ambitious goal.
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broad goal
To achieve our broad goal, of punishments which fit the criminal as well as the crime, we will reform radically the present sentencing structure.
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career goal
Data were collected through three sources: a survey, career goal statements, and interviews.
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common goal
I will comment later about scientists, scientific inquiry, and the potential for reaching the common goal.
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concrete goals
Policies of social, political and economic development require both concrete goals and indices or benchmarks of success.
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conflicting goals
Our two conflicting goals, material aggrandizement and mental security, have political dimensions as well.
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conservation goals
Reconciling agricultural land uses with conservation goals is an issue of great interest and importance to the region.
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defined goal
First, actors focus on moving away from known 'ills' instead of attempting to achieve a stable and clearly defined goal.
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definite goal
There is thus a definite goal to the activity to be achieved, but a fluid grouping of par ties moving along the street.
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desirable goal
If enhanced selfesteem is considered a desirable goal for all children, there are safer means to that end.
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desired goal
An example is the use of penalties associated with variables that measure the deviation between the desired goal and the actual value.
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educational goal
As part of the students' professional training, the broad educational goal is to provide students with the knowledge and skills that they will need to be good physicians.
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eventual goal
The eventual goal of our project is to create software that constructs a database of analyses, on which basis the soundfiles themselves may be manipulated.
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explicit goal
That is, learning occurred without an explicit goal.
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field goal percentage
She ranked 34th overall career wise in the league with a field goal percentage of 46.1%.
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fundamental goal
Recognizing carbon-based life or its remains will be a fundamental goal of future missions.
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game-winning goal
In addition, one of her goals was the game-winning goal.
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goal attempt
The try scoring side is given the chance to score two additional points by kicking a conversion similar to a penalty goal attempt.
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goal differential
They ended with a goal differential of 23, the worst of any national team in any major competition.
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goal orientation
The low dynamic levels, the absence of vibrato and the lack of goal orientation are aspects of 'mourning', a description he thought appropriate for his work.
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humanitarian goal
The consequences, however, will reveal whether our global coalition acts only out of united self-interest, or works genuinely towards a greater humanitarian goal.
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immediate goal
And their immediate goal tonight is to move their audience to its feet.
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initial goal
This should not be confused with the notion of an initial goal.
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intended goal
Then, a hierarchical text planner searches the plan operator library for the most specific communicative action that can accomplish the intended goal.
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legitimate goal
As if there were only one operative or legitimate goal.
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lofty goal
This lofty goal generates some critical challenges that the hype of software agents and many papers in the literature cast aside.
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long-term goal
Clearly, a long-term goal, this process has to be initiated immediately to ensure effective resolution of such intractable river water disputes.
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main goal
Their main goal has been to make the right trade-off between time and space costs.
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major goal
The mechanisation of equivalence-checking in the spi-calculus represents a major goal for our current and future work.
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millennium goals
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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noble goal
This is not only a noble goal, it is a pragmatic one.
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original goal
It chooses the prototype whose original goal has minimum distance from the new goal.
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overall goal
If the overall goal is to maximize survival, then an organism must seek to perform actions that will minimize their chances of negative reinforcement.
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overarching goal
All of these suggestions are in line with the field's overarching goal of explaining the nature of interlanguage rules and determining their origins.
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overriding goal
One basic thing they agree on, though, is what their overriding goal is, and this is to understand how knowledge of language is represented in the mind.
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personal goal
The first notable difference lies in these devotees' respective attitudes towards spiritual striving as a legitimate personal goal.
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primary goal
One of the chief components of a clerical education was just this kind of mastery, since it constituted a primary goal of the student's 'apprenticeship'.
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principal goal
Reclaiming lost land was a principal goal for policymakers, but does that reflect nationalism or simply the natural instinct of rulers-anywhere and at all times?
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realistic goal
For obsidian, sampling and analyzing all sources is a realistic goal.
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reasonable goal
Protecting patients from harm appears to be a reasonable goal of palliative care.
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secondary goal
A second limitation, other than analysis grain, is that of secondary goal relations.
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shared goal
While every candidate will behave in slightly unique ways, there is an underlying and widely shared goal in campaigns: the desire to win the election.
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short-term goal
This could be a reasonable short-term goal, with a long-run objective to include a greater percentage of farmers.
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societal goal
The societal goal is to reduce pollution rather than to avoid paying for unsuccessful pollution control projects.
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specific goal
Each design prototype contains procedural knowledge that defines how the prototype can be used within a design experience to achieve a specific goal.
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specified goal
A completely covert path to a specified goal is generated accordingly.
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stated goal
The stated goal of addressing the needs of the poorest has proved elusive.
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strategic goal
The original strategic goal of the reformers was to establish a research center under the ministry and a network of experimental stations in various regions of the country.
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ultimate goal
The ultimate goal of the government was to gradually phase out unprocessed cocoa exports (ibid.).
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unrealistic goal
Extremely high inter-annotator agreement with highly polysemous words is an unrealistic goal, given the inherent difficulty in attaining a consensus on word meaning and the changeable nature of language.
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winning goal
He scores the winning goal and becomes their hero.
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worthwhile goal
While a worthwhile goal, it is often impossible to tease apart the etiology of multiple symptoms in late-stage cancer.
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worthy goal
On this account, the ground of one's contribution is the morally worthy goal coupled with certain social facts, not just the latter.
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