reasonable goal
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reasonable
adjective
uk/ˈriː.zən.ə.bəl/us/ˈriː.zən.ə.bəl/
based on or using good judgment and therefore fair ...
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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 ofreasonableandgoalfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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Protecting patients from harm appears to be areasonablegoalof palliative care.
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Areasonablegoalis to record averages over "only" 10 million neurons at the 1-cm scale to extract more details of the spatial patterns correlated with cognition.
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However, between passive acceptance of four adult children as areasonablegoaland acceptance of the four-child family as ideal there is still a very wide gulf.
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Fourthly, a means of mobility that protects resources in the long term is areasonablegoal.
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That is areasonablegoal, but this is a fiction, a piece of nonsense.
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That is clearly areasonablegoalwhen we talk about access to and use of the countryside.
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I suggest that it would be of enormous benefit to the milkman and to the housewife, and a veryreasonablegoalwhich the country might set itself.
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Setting a goal, areasonablegoal, is a wise and effective way to generate energy, as is deliberately developing interest in the task at hand.
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Therefore, he argued for the reasonability of atheism, and that happiness in one's life is the mostreasonablegoal.
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These are reasonable goals, and one would expect them to lead to discussion along the lines of the preceding paragraph.
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