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The closer I got to my finish line, that rubbly, rocky coast of Ross Island, the more I started to realize that the biggest lesson that this very long, very hard walk might be teaching me is that happiness is not a finish line, that for us humans, the perfection that so many of us seem to dream of might not ever be truly attainable, and that if we can't feel content here, today, now, on our journeys amidst the mess and the striving that we all inhabit, the open loops, the half-finished to-do lists, the could-do-better-next-times, then we might never feel it.
The 2012 Kyoto targets are attainable.
Often, optimal economic policies and best practices are not attainable – or even desirable.
The Powell doctrine stipulates that the US should use military force only when a vital national-security interest is at stake; the strategic objective is clear and attainable; the benefits are likely to outweigh the costs; adverse consequences can be limited; broad international and domestic support has been obtained; and a plausible exit strategy is in place.
But targets cannot be vague aspirational goals; they must be precise, evaluable, attainable, and motivating.
If the BRICS countries are to jell as a pressure group in international relations, they must agree on what they believe to be attainable political and economic objectives.
First of all, unlike any time in the past, this goal has become fully attainable, and is, as a result, a moral imperative.
They are grand, noble, and ambitious goals, but fully attainable for today’s Chile, the Bicentennial Chile, a Chile now viewing the twenty-first century with more optimism and enthusiasm than ever before.
A 10% increase in Japan’s female labor-force participation rate – an entirely attainable goal – would translate into an almost 5% gain in total labor-force participation.
Doing so would require the growth rate of labor productivity to more than double, but this is an attainable goal.
More is needed, and what is needed is not necessarily attainable.
In 1990, Greece signed the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child, in which it recognized all children’s right to “the highest attainable standard of health and to facilities for the treatment of illness and rehabilitation of health.”
Peaceful coexistence between different political systems is an attainable objective, and one to which all the world’s major powers can sign up.
That said, across the major advanced economies – Japan, the eurozone, the UK, and the US – nominal GDP growth rates over the last five years have been well below those compatible with low inflation and attainable real output growth.
Reductions of other greenhouse gases, such as nitric oxide, are attainable through clever combustor design.
The European Union was brought into existence step-by-step by putting the cart before the horse: setting limited but politically attainable targets and timetables, knowing full well that they would not be sufficient, and thus that further steps would be required in due course.
This often means accepting that optimal and best-practice economic policies are not attainable – or, indeed, even desirable.
Failure to achieve greater inclusiveness – a difficult but attainable goal – would stoke social tensions and fuel already-resurgent nationalism, producing disruptions that would ultimately lead to losses for everyone.
The second attainable goal is to impose such a high price on Hezbollah as to be an effective deterrence in practice.
Indeed, despite the global financial crisis, which caused many to doubt whether the world would reach the MDG targets, the goals remain attainable – but only with the right mix of sound policies and additional financial resources.
Now, the European Commission is nearing a moment of truth: Will it set ambitious but attainable energy efficiency targets that will force individuals and industry to make real changes?
It is far more productive to strive for something that has worked very well in the past and remains attainable: a regime of peaceful coexistence among national capitalisms.
This goal certainly seems attainable.
By making exporting more efficient and less costly – up to 20% cheaper, in some sectors – a wide range of goods and services would become attainable for millions of new consumers.
These perquisites of a middle-class life are attainable.
Without a sufficient military presence, as well as improved and reinforced reconstruction efforts, this goal is not attainable.
Sustainable Development Goal 4 – to ensure equitable and inclusive education for all by 2030 – is attainable, but only if solutions come from the ground up, which means from the Africans most committed to them.
That ambition has become more attainable in view of the damage to the US system's credibility in the aftermath of the 2008 financial crisis.
Between 1950 and 2007, advanced economies’ private-sector debt (households and companies) grew from 50% to 170% of GDP and adequate growth seemed attainable only if debt grew far more rapidly than nominal GDP.
But this goal, too, is undoubtedly attainable.