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When the UN was founded in 1945, the primary objective was to prevent the outbreak of World War III.
The Shanghai free-trade zone’s final objective is to help China exploit fully the demand potential of its domestic market.
And should central banks be given a specific financial-stability objective, separate from an inflation target?
Sticking to a simple objective in the interests of a quiet life, even if you know it to be imperfect, is an inelegant posture at best.
This sensible objective was sabotaged by the tendency to overlook what was actually happening in some countries.
The result of this is to neglect the overall North American perspective while giving preference to a domestic or bilateral vision that sometimes fails to promote the larger objective of integration.
But the state of US politics today does highlight the need for voters everywhere to have access to complete and objective accounts of what is happening in their country and the world.
But it makes far more sense to use the force of markets – the power of incentives – than to rely on goodwill, especially when it comes to oil companies that regard their sole objective as maximizing profits, regardless of the cost to others.
This should happen without impeding any of the many ways in which we can check that the objective is in a good cause, and ensure that trusting people are not led to serve a lie and suffer disaster as a consequence, in an illusory search for future prosperity.
Godrej’s engineers observed that if the objective was only to keep food from spoiling, and not necessarily to make ice, it would be sufficient if the refrigerator cooled to a few degrees above zero centigrade.
Clearly, the Fed’s objective is to increase bond prices, in the hope that lower long-term interest rates will propel corporate investment.
Nonetheless, China's stake in the outcome of the current crisis is big enough to make it a party to a wide range of exchanges, formal and informal, bilateral and multilateral--all with the objective of promoting change without upheaval on the Korean peninsula.
The US could further that objective by letting it be known diplomatically that it will not object if others allow Cuba to return to the IMF.
The objective of growth for the accession countries is apparently the sole imperative in Brussels; macroeconomic stability can wait.
If Europe and its companies are to remain competitive and attain the strategic objective of “Europe 2020” – a Europe that uses its resources efficiently – the Mediterranean rail transport infrastructure is vital.
To this end, eligibility should be based on objective, transparent criteria of relative economic and social development.
Decisions about admission should not be determined by the geopolitical interests of others, but solely by the measure of a state’s readiness, tested by objective criteria, to adopt the standards of these groupings and respect their underlying principles.
A critical objective in setting the CFTA’s product-specific rules of origin should be to promote the production and trade of inputs and other intermediate products within Africa.
Though checking whether a budget is below the SGP’s ceiling of 3% of GDP may be a straightforward matter, there can be reasonable disagreement about whether the business-cycle adjustment should be estimated at 0.5% or 0.8% of GDP, or whether a country is adhering to its medium-term expenditure objective.
Dealing with the short-run challenges of the current crisis should not distract us from the objective of preventing future meltdowns.
Committing Germany to that objective is precisely what Merkel has defined as her political goal for the rest of her term in office.
Pursuing the latter objective would require the AKP to relinquish some power voluntarily.
This objective underlies our “simplification schemes” for negotiation and consultation in the business sector.
After all, the objective – to identify a few terrorists hiding among millions of law-abiding citizens, before they commit a violent act – is the equivalent of finding a needle in a haystack.
Politicians, however, prefer to couch the objective in more uplifting and persuasive terms than that of crassly increasing consumption.
But his final visit to Israel seems to indicate that his objective is different: he seems to be planning, together with Israel, to end the Iranian nuclear program – and to do so by military, rather than diplomatic, means.
The objective must be to slow the political clock.
Their sole common objective is the ouster of the existing regime.
So finally let the World Summit on Food Security provide tangible evidence of a commitment from all governments to a common objective: a world free of hunger.
To be sure, Bush reinforced both trends, but their real causes lie in objective historical factors, namely America’s being the sole world power since 1989 and Europe’s self-inflicted weakness.
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