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Example sentences for: goal

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But the real overriding goal of the union and its executive arm, the European Commission (there's also a European Parliament here, but we can skip that), is self-aggrandizement.
Then, aged 35, sitting under a tree at the place now known as Bodh Gaya (south of Patna), he vowed to stay there until his goal was achieved.
If we set the goal of an experiment to detect all genes that are differentially expressed at any scale, then the sample size needed to do so would be prohibitively large.
First, the President and Congress designed the Acid Rain Program to focus on reducing the SO2 emissions that cause acid deposition and translated the emission reduction goal into a nationwide cap on emissions from electric generating sources.
The following selection criteria were used to identify published studies for inclusion in this analysis: study design-randomized clinical trial; population - hospitalized adult postoperative, trauma, head injured, burn, or medical ICU patients; intervention - gastric versus small intestinal enteral nutrition, initiated at the same time and with the same caloric goal; and outcome variables - at least one of the following primary outcome variables: incidence of nosocomial pneumonia, average caloric goal achieved, average daily caloric intake, time to the initiation of tube feeds, time to reach caloric goal, ICU LOS, and mortality.