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But what objective grounds are there to say that the Nazis were evil?
Addressing the glaring shortcomings in the country's judicial system should also be made a condition for support, both as an immediate and a long-term objective.
Although this is not a particularly ambitious objective – after all, Germany’s current-account surplus at the time amounted to 7.8% GDP – achieving it is vital to the country’s continued prosperity.
He will see it as a precondition for altering perceptions of the US in the Arab and Muslim worlds, since restoring America’s credibility will be a major objective of the incoming administration.
Israeli hardliners cannot be sure that, at the end of the day, Obama will not find it necessary to change policies toward Israel in order to achieve this objective, for he considers it to be a strategic concern.
The US military’s objective of compelling the Taliban to sue for “reconciliation” was always going to be difficult to achieve.
That objective is within sight, but we cannot count on our current approach to carry us across the finish line.
No objective is more universal – or more pressing – than addressing the shared challenges of sustainable development.
But the reality is that the two issues are connected and the magnitude of the disaster has been made worse by the junta’s single-minded objective of preserving its power.
America's Fed follows a rule of monetary policy whereby the prime objective of controlling inflation permits, according to precise parameters, a reaction to changes in the rate of growth.
So, what should be the objective regarding inflation?
This is normally a secondary objective, but it may become central if the economy enters a low-inflation credit and asset-price boom.
But the new development banks seem less interested in supplanting current institutions than in improving upon them – an objective shared by those institutions themselves.
The objective must be to boost European security integration (in its broadest sense), lifting Europe to the forefront of global security.
Bush's objective, however, was not to maintain the strength of the economy; it was to push forward a tax agenda that shifted the burden away from those who could best afford to bear it.
The Germans, for example, regretted having agreed to joint fiscal expansion at the Bonn summit, because reflation turned out to be the wrong objective in the inflation-plagued late 1970s.
The main objective now is to strive for free and fair elections that will ultimately lead to a legitimate and responsible government.
Its key objective is “to prevent the spread of nuclear weapons and weapons technology...and to further the goal of achieving nuclear disarmament.”
The US and China would accept North Korea’s de facto nuclear status, but jointly reaffirm their long-term objective of a nuclear-free peninsula.
When objective circumstances and the correlation of forces (to use two old-fashioned concepts) permit, citizens spring into action.
Stability alone can no longer be the EU’s only objective in the region.
More generally, countries need to avail themselves of the tools at their disposal to manage cross-border capital flows, with the objective of mitigating the risk of financial crises and their associated fiscal costs.
And the outgoing Hu Jintao’s objective was development, particularly in the country’s vast interior, unleashed through large-scale privatization.
After all, the NPT’s objective is to “prevent the spread of nuclear weapons and weapons technology, to promote cooperation in the peaceful uses of nuclear energy, and to further the goal of achieving nuclear disarmament and general and complete disarmament.”
Yet it is also true that the US is uneasy about China’s not-too-hidden aim to dominate Asia – an objective that runs counter to US security and commercial interests and to the larger goal of securing a balance in power in Asia.
Given the extent of America’s multilateral problem, this is largely a meaningless objective, especially in light of the massive and ill-timed tax cuts and federal expenditure increases that the US has enacted in the last six months.
Chinese negotiators are more circumspect, resisting numerical deficit targets but committing to the joint objective of “effective measures to substantially reduce” the bilateral imbalance with the US.
Our objective should be to bequeath future generations that decent society.
This advances the objective of helping local businesses, particularly innovative small and medium-size firms, to grow and thrive.
Given these costs, European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker has rightly stressed that “killing” Schengen would undermine the EU’s foundational goal of “ever closer union” – an objective to which, admittedly, several EU members have signed up only reluctantly.
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