I. noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a policy objective
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How can we best achieve our policy objectives?
aims and objectives (= the things you hope to achieve )
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These aims and objectives are set out in chapters two and three.
an objective assessment (= that is based on facts, not on feelings or beliefs )
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The test results will provide an objective assessment of how much you have improved.
an objective criterion (= that is based on fact and not opinion )
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The label of 'carer' was defined by the objective criterion of someone who spends more than seven hours looking after someone.
an objective measurement (= one that is not influenced by your opinions or feelings )
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The test provides an objective measurement of the student’s listening skills.
declared aim/objective/intention etc
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It is their declared intention to increase taxes.
fulfil an aim/a goal/an objective
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an analysis of how different countries are attempting to fulfill their political goals
meet...objectives
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The scheme does not meet its objectives .
primary purpose/aim/objective
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Their primary objective is to make money.
pursue a goal/aim/objective
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She was known to be ruthless in pursuing her goals.
ultimate goal/aim/objective etc
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Complete disarmament was the ultimate goal of the conference.
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Our ultimate objective is to have as many female members of parliament as there are male.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
broad
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Overlaying local objectives are broader , system-wise objectives, for example efficiency objectives.
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Restructuring must coincide with the broader Community objectives , and Community funds must be matched by national funds.
clear
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The teams are performing as self managed units although the manager will agree clear objectives with the team.
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They are more open as to style and time deadlines, but still have fairly clear purposes and objectives for their organization.
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Teachers and students will appreciate the clear objectives and simple layout.
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A clear objective was set and adhered to: recapture the islands.
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By providing clear goals and objectives , it minimises frustration and wasted effort. 4.
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Indeed, the concept of success could scarcely apply since it worked to no clear objectives .
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If purposeful, goal-directed activity is to take place, clear objectives need to be set for all the organisation's activities.
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Finally, the purpose of this section has been to help teachers write clear objectives .
different
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Although part of the same expedition, Gould's and Sturt's different objectives led them to work independently.
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Personnel managers realized that their new mission demanded different performance objectives .
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The time-scales over which different objectives should be achieved may vary considerably, depending on the level at which they are applied.
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These pressures reflect two quite different objectives .
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Within these initiatives, different objectives , participants, funding arrangements, and approaches have been identified.
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Reconciliation implies the need to achieve harmony by making different objectives compatible.
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Thus Stiglitz sees the control problem as a multiple-principal-single- agent problem with each principal having a somewhat different objective .
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The public service broadcasters and the commercial broadcasters increasingly have different objectives .
economic
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The regulation of money supply may be used by governments to achieve specific economic objectives , e.g. full employment or price stability.
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The response of most governments has been to manipulate the economy in order to secure some trade-off between the conflicting economic objectives .
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Second, analysis was carried out of the existing capabilities of the Management Committee with regard to what might be appropriate economic objectives for them.
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Particular attention was directed to the lack of accordance between bargaining outcomes and national, economic policy objectives .
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We believe development plans are a vital means of securing the integrated approach to environmental and economic objectives which the guidance seeks.
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There would be no need for a choice between economic objectives if they were all uniformly related to one controllable variable.
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The reader is referred to Chapter 12 for a more thorough discussion of the compatibility of these economic objectives .
environmental
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There was also an environmental objective - to maintain a proper balance between human needs and the natural environment.
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We ask how we can make environmental objectives tie in with business objectives - which means profit.
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Your help in achieving the environmental objectives is vital in ensuring the greening of the whole Company.
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We believe development plans are a vital means of securing the integrated approach to environmental and economic objectives which the guidance seeks.
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Admittedly the focus is changing from production support to measures designed to meet social and environmental objectives .
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They should be seen as complementary contributions to the wider management of our transport, environmental and social objectives .
important
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This illustrates the important link between objectives and assessment.
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Another important objective of financial statement analysis is to develop a reasonable basis for forecasting the future.
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They are followed by a very important affective objective .
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We must not allow all these important objectives to be imperiled during the hurly-burly of budget negotiations.
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An important objective in counselling is to help the older individual live for today rather than for an uncertain tomorrow.
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Describe why it is important to set objectives in the firm and comment on the problems of setting objectives.
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An important objective of the Centre will be to elucidate these relationships.
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Strategic objectives Pearl's invitation to tender set out several important objectives.
key
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This is still a key financial objective .
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What are the key objectives for your company over the next one to five years? 8.
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This strategy was based on a number of key objectives .
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Their solution was of course a key objective of the Powick project, which was still at an early operational stage in 1979.
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This strategic approach aims to optimise information and technology as valuable resources to achieve the key business objectives of the corporation.
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The county council's Social Services committee endorsed the paper's key objectives at their meeting last week.
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He added that it was important that key educational objectives were addressed from the start.
main
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It is to help us reach our organization's main objectives .
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The main objective is to find a solution agreeable to the company in terms of its feasibility and cost.
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Management critique Hates repetitiveness; focuses on the main objectives , rather than on getting details of individual tasks right.
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At this stage his main objective was to catch a wave all the way into the beach.
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If the main objective is vertical equity, the ability to pay. principle must usually take precedence.
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His main summer objective , as usual, was to get through to his holiday.
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Its main municipal objectives were efficient and accountable administration based on political and administrative decentralisation.
major
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The major objective of the study is therefore to investigate empirically the strategic behaviour of such firms.
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As a result the protection of the environment is one of our major objectives .
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A successful system for evaluating work-inhibited students must accomplish two major objectives .
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Hence security of supply continues to be a major objective of Community energy policy.
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Conformity with the group is still a major objective .
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The major objective of the counsellor, especially the counsellor who actively seeks to combat ageism, is to encourage involvement.
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Some of its politicians were backward-looking in that their major objectives were to remedy inter-war problems.
national
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All succeeded in meeting most of their local and national objectives of moving people into the community.
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It represents the germ of an idea which someday might explode into a national objective .
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Subjects depend on each other. National objectives postulate certain contents.
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This matter must not be singled out in a way that allows it to be used to override National Park objectives .
overall
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The overall objective of these measures is to facilitate trade.
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The overall objective of waste minimization is applied to each specific design case.
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Effective study implies some deeper reflection about overall educational objectives as well as the structure and content of human learning.
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The overall objective is to make the ski rock backwards slightly.
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This may also indicate preparatory drill in reading skills and the handling of information sources. 2. Overall aims and objectives .
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In real terms these overall objectives have been translated into a series of major development projects.
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They work together to achieve the overall objectives of the organization.
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Liphook are strongly backed this year to achieve their overall objective of bringing Southern League cricket to Ripsley Park in 1993.
political
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Rather, we claim, it is the political objective of removing local government's autonomy that is at issue.
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The first type, associational interest groups, are organized specifically to further political objectives of the groups' members.
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In the 1940s the official press had stated that economic goals would be subordinate to political objectives .
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The most direct methods to achieve political objectives involve some form of political action.
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To pursue political objectives seriously, they must work with the very people whose religious beliefs are most antithetical to their own.
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Second, political objectives can not be as clearly specified as the scientific or rational model seems to demand.
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At any rate, non-violence was on its way to becoming a political objective , not merely a moral one.
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For more than 100 years, the left saw the powerful, interventionist state as the means to deliver its political objectives .
primary
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The seizure of power in the capital had been the rebels' primary objective since 18 July.
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Take, for example, the principle of keeping performance results as the primary objective of behavior and skill change.
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At the Foundation of the Government's policy lies the primary objective of competition.
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Performance is the primary objective of design changes.
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But it is desirable to know, in one's own mind at least, what is the primary objective .
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Making all-city in track is one of the primary objectives .
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I mentioned the primary objective of reducing the number of road casualties.
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Keep performance results the primary objective of behavior and skill change.
prime
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This instituted a partnership between central and local government with both having as a prime objective the promotion of the education service.
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So more and more families moved to the suburbs, with better schools their prime objective .
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Ability in the techniques of good management should be a prime objective of all surveyors.
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Your prime objective should assist you in coming to terms with the most limiting aspect of verbal presentations.
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Their prime objective was to learn, and it was easy to create a fun learning environment.
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This was the prime objective and the closing of the card catalogue was a consequence.
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The prime objective was to keep plateau production going for as long as possible through increased recovery and satellites.
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Nevertheless, the prime objective of forest management remains that of timber production.
principal
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Its principal objectives include the promotion of health and safety, the protection of the environment and the establishment of quality standards.
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The principal objective of the scheme is to provide each of the fourteen candidates with a 12-month commitment to his appropriate squad.
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His principal objective was to clear his name of the suspicion attached to it.
specific
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The regulation of money supply may be used by governments to achieve specific economic objectives , e.g. full employment or price stability.
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What we have just witnessed is the importance of having a very specific objective .
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Chapter 2 identified the five specific objectives of the project: 1.
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Disobedience has to be organized, and it has to have both a specific target and a specific objective .
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Again, however, a specific objective needs to be established and a suitable tax instrument selected.
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Decisions about the effectiveness and appropriateness of different behaviours can only be made within the context of particular situations and specific objectives .
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The specific objective of this paper is to show that these children have the worst mortality record of any social group.
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A Directive binds member states to certain specific objectives , but leaves them to implement the necessary measures through national laws.
stated
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Every research study needs to be assessed on the criterion of whether it measures up to its own stated objectives .
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Well stated objectives often suggest the activity necessary to accomplish them.
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Occupation policy had two stated objectives: demilitarization and democratization.
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This is, unashamedly, a policy of relegating by expediency rather than by any stated objectives .
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So, for instance, Taylor and Urquhart found that the cost of relegating by expediency rather than by stated objectives .
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It is important to plan the evaluation process at the outset so that it relates to the stated objectives .
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There can hardly ever have been a piece of legislation that has so utterly failed to achieve its stated objectives .
ultimate
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It is this personhood which is the Monster's ultimate objective .
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There was one significant qualification; emancipation was the ultimate objective .
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My ultimate objective is complete debt cancellation.
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The ultimate objectives of this strategy were of course no different from those of previous post-war governments.
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Then they should establish sets of year-by-year targets, the achievement of which will carry them forward towards their ultimate objectives .
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business
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We ask how we can make environmental objectives tie in with business objectives - which means profit.
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This strategic approach aims to optimise information and technology as valuable resources to achieve the key business objectives of the corporation.
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Training is available in telephone skills, letter writing, handling meetings or presentations, to help you meet your business objectives .
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In consequence we have developed restrictive practices and engineering, at best, are only partially aware of the business objectives .
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We welcome visits to the College to discuss individual nominations and to identify personal development needs related to business objectives .
policy
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How successful will this policy objective be?
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Particular attention was directed to the lack of accordance between bargaining outcomes and national, economic policy objectives .
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Some of the ways in which bureaux have carried out this policy objective are described here.
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It is politicians who tend to determine and legislate for policy objectives .
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The other main aggregates are dealt with in the next chapter where the major macroeconomic policy objectives are discussed.
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The Group Occupational Hygienist has responsibility for monitoring the environment and policing systems to comply with the policy objectives .
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The centrality of full employment as a policy objective is electorally expedient too.
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Griffiths regarded central government leadership in establishing policy objectives as crucial.
■ VERB
accomplish
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The 1974 legislation would appear to have accomplished this objective .
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Would another strategy accomplish the same objective at lower costs?
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Perhaps her plan had accomplished its objective after all.
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We do not agree, however, that the trimester approach is necessary to accomplish this objective .
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We can see that managers do indeed use power strategies to accomplish their objectives , and they can clearly articulate them.
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A successful system for evaluating work-inhibited students must accomplish two major objectives .
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Anti-aircraft fire was intense but largely ineffectual, and we quickly accomplished our objectives .
achieve
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The regulation of money supply may be used by governments to achieve specific economic objectives , e.g. full employment or price stability.
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Expressions of power often reflect honest differences between people seeking to achieve their work-related objectives .
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To achieve these objectives 90 percent of the Fund's resources were allocated to vocational training.
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The most direct methods to achieve political objectives involve some form of political action.
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Your performance against your job description and progress made towards achieving your objectives will be reviewed on a regular basis.
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Further, the most powerful individuals or groups or functions are usually the most important in achieving the organization's objectives .
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Suppliers are expected to propose one or more strategies which will achieve the objectives described in this document.
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White could achieve the same objectives and avoid the loss of his c3 pawn by playing 37 d3.
attain
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The continuation of farming is not so much the objective of the Directive but the means to attain its objectives.
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Efficiency relates to the cost in resources of attaining objectives .
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The more uncertain and defensive you are, the more difficult it will be to attain your objectives .
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We also object to flagrant waste, particularly of resources devoted to attaining our primary objectives .
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When their motivations are strong and their targets clear, they are capable of going to incredible lengths to attain their objectives .
define
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Identify your problem area and define your objectives briefly and coherently in written form. 4.
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So, it is necessary to define objectives , plan for them, and monitor progress.
develop
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A third series is being developed with the same objective .
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Setting Objectives One of the most important elements in the planning and evaluation process is developing sound objectives .
establish
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It is therefore necessary to establish the limited objectives of the index at the outset.
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The use of needs assessment to establish measurable objectives and establish goals. 3.
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Policy maker and planner: determining values, establishing aims and objectives , prioritising and communicating them. 6.
identify
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Chapter 2 identified the five specific objectives of the project: 1.
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They also highlight the necessity to continuously identify the objectives and learning outcomes of the course.
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The client should identify those objectives as a matter of course in the relevant engagement documentation.
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The second aim of the project was to identify how training objectives are being met in practice.
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Finally, the formulation stage involves using the results of the assessment process to identify objectives , plans, and strategies.
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Planning and control 2.1 How should the organisation identify its objectives and set targets for achievement?
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I begin by identifying those objectives which - I hope he agrees - the hon. Gentleman and his party share.
meet
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The range is 1.5 percent of base salary for meeting one or two objectives to 5 percent for five or more.
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There is also general recognition that for many years prisons have failed to meet these objectives .
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How does the actual cost compare with the planned cost for meeting the objective ?
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I hope and believe that we shall be able to meet that objective .
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By virtue of our respective positions in the organization, you can tell me to meet certain performance objectives .
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Wherever possible non-destructive approaches outlined earlier should be used to meet research objectives in preference to excavation.
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If you have met this objective , fine.
provide
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By providing clear goals and objectives , it minimises frustration and wasted effort. 4.
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This would ensure services are provided in line with government objectives .
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Face-to-face situations provide the context, objectives spell out the desirable end and behaviours are the means.
pursue
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Despite their growing unpopularity, the Laudian bishops continued to pursue their objectives with great vigour throughout the 1630s.
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We need to learn the lessons of history and pursue our goals and objectives with a single-minded purpose heretofore unknown.
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By contrast, recent partnerships have both parties equally active in pursuing their problematical objectives .
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To pursue political objectives seriously, they must work with the very people whose religious beliefs are most antithetical to their own.
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At no time can I remember ever being stopped from pursuing an objective which was of ultimate potential gain to the company.
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Obviously it is not a matter of pursuing both objectives at the same time.
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Furthermore, if firms pursue objectives other than profit maximisation then the picture becomes even less clear-cut.
set
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Obviously they need to be countered and an objective must be set .
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The first step in project management is to set a measurable objective .
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If you set unobtainable objectives you will be seen to have failed even if you do a wonderful job.
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The board annually will set performance objectives for the superintendent and he will receive bonuses based on how many he meets.
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Assessing community care needs in their localities, setting objectives and priorities and formulating community care plans. 2.
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First we identify our target and set a measurable objective that states from where to where by when.
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They do not set themselves objectives to achieve.
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Shaper: pushes the team towards action, sets objectives and looks for outcomes; dominant, extrovert and anxious.
state
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Above all, there is the same advantage in stating objectives in behavioral terms.
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Few are willing to take the risk of pursuing major new opportunities that are not covered by their stated objectives .
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Clearly stating objectives will be a great help in making methods systematic.
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The development of overall program goals to be achieved by clearly stated objectives which relate to teacher needs and expectations. 3.
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The problem should be clearly and explicitly defined, and the relationship to health should be stated . 2. State objectives .
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But a California appeals court found that the club had different purposes than its stated objectives and upheld the school regulations.
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Mildara has a stated objective of obtaining an annual return of 15 % on shareholder equity.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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State your business objectives clearly.
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The objective of this computer game is to design a city.
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The 4th Division's objective was a town 20 miles to the east.
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The company's main objective is to keep recyclable material out of landfills.
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The President believes that all military objectives have been achieved.
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The report focused on three of the business's objectives.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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At worst a vague objective should be couched in very precise terms.
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Performance objectives give people the best means to assess and improvise their way through change.
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Program objectives are a major focus of the evaluation model.
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The following is an example of some cognitive objectives for teaching the nursing care of a patient recovering from heart surgery.
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The problem of establishing coherent, explicit and stable objectives for state enterprises applies with particular force to the railways.
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The second objective was met by the introduction of a betterment levy on development value.
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They recognized that some of their objectives could be reached by administrative action without running the gauntlet of the legislative process.
II. adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
as
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Any comparison between these is dependent upon the further externalization of these values as objective forms.
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When you fill out your diary, step outside yourself and be as objective as possible.
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These inner phantasies are projected into the external reality which is then re-incorporated as objective reality.
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At the meeting, keep your feedback as objective as possible by being specific.
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Throughout its search for a solution, Pearl had been determined to be as objective as possible.
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Is there such a thing as objective reporting?
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It is as objective as the object of which it is a perspectival appearance.
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No one who can be as objective about her own thinking processes as you are could be otherwise.
completely
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Nor is it a completely objective evaluation.
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But since none of us can be completely objective we have a responsibility to say what our biases are.
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It is crucial therefore that these guidelines are followed in all cases: a completely objective approach adopted.
more
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Opposition Members believe that there should be more objective planning criteria.
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Such persons will be much more objective and conscientious critics and that is exactly what you are looking for at this time.
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Finally, sociological accounts should be more objective , systematic and potentially verifiable.
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There must be more objective standards than that, if shamans as a class are not to expose themselves as downright quacks.
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Please write down two or more objective measurements.
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It will also give you a more objective idea of how an employer sees you when reading your application form or letter.
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Red cell volume would be a more objective indicator of placental transfusion.
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In the last few years a more objective method, based on the properties of the material erupted has been devised.
most
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Even in the most objective environments, the interpretation process may not be easy.
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Alvin had given her several names, Lathem told Truitte, but had suggested that he would be the most objective .
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Having been almost born there on skis, she is not the most objective judge.
purely
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Obviously, purely objective criteria such as the patient's age or the particular illness can not be justified or relied upon.
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Clearly, in Satnam and kindred cases, the purely objective stance which Caldwell has been interpreted to represent has been rejected.
totally
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Critical doubt depends on a myth, the idea that human knowledge is totally objective and neutral.
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A good organiser is totally objective , even downright hard-hearted in choosing venue, style, speakers and programme.
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The Profitboss is totally objective in making people decisions in business.
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analysis
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Even a brief moment of objective analysis reveals that this can not be so.
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The Congressional Research Service is an independent agency that offers members of Congress objective analysis of issues and legislation.
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The emphasis is on objective analysis of evidence rather than on a subjective impression of any single witness.
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And this is what the Davenports wanted-an objective analysis of why their son was having so much difficulty being mature and self-sufficient.
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It was established to promote independent, objective analysis and public discussion of open economies and relations among them.
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In a world filled with guilt and bitterness, there is no room for self-criticism or objective analysis .
assessment
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It also hampers any objective assessment of the value of treatment in these patients.
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The implication is that further scientific research will eliminate residual uncertainties, allowing for a more objective assessment of harm.
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It uses all sorts of quantitative and qualitative data, and allows all types of subjective and objective assessments .
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Seeking a second opinion is strongly advised to obtain an objective assessment .
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Listing, in theory, is an objective assessment of architectural or historical importance which does not necessarily prevent demolition.
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This has meant that many studies tend to concentrate on the objective assessment of a fiscally quantifiable reality.
criteria
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Obviously, purely objective criteria such as the patient's age or the particular illness can not be justified or relied upon.
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In clinical trials of Crohn's disease, objective criteria of gut inflammation are desirable, particularly if quantifiable.
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No two patients were quite alike and objective criteria were scanty.
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How far these variations affected the ability of tenants to sublet is difficult to determine in the absence of objective criteria .
description
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Structural features of perception, he suggests, might be accessible to objective description even though qualitative aspects are not.
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What if language is not a neutral system capable of objective description and analysis?
evaluation
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Nor is it a completely objective evaluation .
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It demands a kind of distance from the observer, an objective evaluation of its virtues and failings.
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The extent to which local advisers can undertake an objective evaluation of a school already familiar to them is one consideration.
evidence
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These quotations constitute the objective evidence for the existence and currency of the words, meanings, or phrases which they illustrate.
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Our last bit of objective evidence , such as it is, concerns those prints on the scullery window.
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In patients disabled by severe dysmotility syndromes, however, they sometimes provide the only objective evidence of abnormality.
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For the most part, objective evidence to support these claims, in the form of scientific trials, is still lacking.
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But the objective evidence is here on his side.
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There is objective evidence that something odd did happen near Roswell in 1947.
fact
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But it is not the objective facts that are abnormal, it is the circumstances in which they are observed.
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Mostly it was the objective fact that Communism is a rotten system.
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The police case does not contain just raw objective facts .
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It insists that all research is totally impartial to give readers objective facts about products and services.
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The owners' subjective opinions are borne out by objective facts .
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Supposing the physician can find no tissue damage or that there is an inappropriate relation between objective fact and subjective complaint.
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With the former, conformity to objective fact is the standard of reliability.
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There is no such thing as an objective fact .
function
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Class origins are less important than the objective function of serving the interests of the ruling class.
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We first observe that T1 is uniquely optimal for the objective function because we would have.
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Similarly, there is an objective function which has T2 as its optimal tableau.
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In general, we will examine problems having p linear objective functions ,, which we wish to maximise subject to linear constraints.
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However, the objective function increases if we increase any variable.
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To accommodate multiple objectives , we will extend the simplex tableau by including an additional objective row for each objective function .
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This involves specifying a goal or target value for the objective function .
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The up-pseudo-cost is where is the objective function value of the up-problem.
information
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In other respects, such as outcome, we have unambiguously objective information .
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Lacking objective information on outcomes, they make their decisions largely on political considerations.
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Moreover, objective information about the world outside is sometimes obtained in this state.
knowledge
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To employ Popper's terminology, it is to move from the world of subjective knowledge to the world of objective knowledge.
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Research is an attempt to produce objective knowledge , independent of personal viewpoint.
law
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But what are these objective laws ?
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This implied that it was possible to construct a rational theory based on these objective laws .
measure
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First the results from the judgment tasks are reported and relationships between these judgments and a variety of objective measures are explored.
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Personality trait ratings will be replaced with more objective measures of performance focusing on job-related outcomes and behaviors.
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Our objective measures of light intensity would be discarded if they universally gave answers that contradicted our subjective experiences.
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But demographers and social scientists also use more objective measures .
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The authors used a rise in faecal fat as an objective measure for toxicity.
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A variety of more objective measures have traditionally been used as well by teachers.
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Perhaps the most surprising of these five failures to find an objective measure of pain is the last.
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However, public perception of risk is often at odds with the objective measures used by engineers.
measurement
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The assessment of needs is not, therefore, a matter of objective measurement .
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Observations of behaviour based on objective measurement will make it possible to produce statements of cause and effect.
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For this reason objective measurement is not possible and the exactitude of the natural sciences can not be duplicated.
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Please write down two or more objective measurements .
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The method is particularly valuable as an objective measurement to assess the response to therapy.
method
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Psychology also often shuts out female subjects from objective method , and leaves them to more qualitative approaches.
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It is the only educational institution in the world that teaches aesthetic appreciation primarily through an objective method of investigation.
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In the last few years a more objective method , based on the properties of the material erupted has been devised.
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Their attempts to provide more objective methods do not challenge the gender bias involved in psychological notions of objectivity.
observer
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The slightly later and opposing tradition is that of the lexicographer as the objective observer and recorder of language.
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The last thing I wanted was to relapse into the role of a patronizing objective observer .
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More objective observers regarded the contest as too close to call.
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Scientists like to think of themselves as above the fray, or aside the fray, or objective observers of the fray.
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Now Gergen is back at U. S. News as a supposedly objective observer .
order
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What makes the idea of an objective order intelligible?
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The possibility of an objective order Both sides in the dispute see the issue of criteria as being of key importance.
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Yet none of this is quite sufficient to clarify the concept of an objective order .
reality
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These inner phantasies are projected into the external reality which is then re-incorporated as objective reality.
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The subjective experience of individual actors is brought together with the objective reality of public issues.
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Did this energy have some objective reality or was it merely a way of looking at known processes from a different viewpoint?
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Thus, what is called objective reality is never fully known.
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No objective reality means no certainties and that means agnosticism.
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Because they describe an objective reality , descriptive core beliefs are simply valid or invalid.
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Essentially, we were exploring subjective experiences of work and pointing to the fact that these experiences become objective reality .
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It seems clear that, long before phenomenal consciousness of any fort we can recognise existed, there was an objective reality .
risk
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Both are also related to the measures of objective risk .
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These descriptions were analysed to calculate a measure of the objective risk of accident at a junction.
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Instead the first measure of objective risk , total accident numbers, was chosen as the number for subjects to estimate.
standard
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Unfortunately, not all health professionals take the objective standards of their medical training into their public and political comment.
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They provided an objective standard by which we could judge ourselves.
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There must be more objective standards than that, if shamans as a class are not to expose themselves as downright quacks.
test
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If you enjoy games, why not compile a list of objective test questions to use in Trivial Pursuits?
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This is an objective test which does not depend upon either the skill or the resources of the particular occupier.
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What we need is an objective test that we can apply from the outside to distinguish whether an organism has free will.
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But me only objective test of whether an organism has tree will is whether its behavior can be predicted.
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The ultimate objective test of free will would seem to be: Can one predict the behavior of the organism?
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Instead, the courts will subject the clause to the objective test of reasonableness.
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An objective test would be determined by a court.
truth
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We are concerned with three main questions in this work: Do moral judgements possess objective truth or falsehood?
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However, it is better to distinguish the issue of objective truth from that of rationality.
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Still we must believe in love, just as we must believe in free will and objective truth .
view
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I can offer an objective view , an informed opinion.
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He or she will bring an objective view to team meetings.
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They suggest that sociological perspectives are shaped more by historical circumstances than by objective views of the reality of social life.
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Tess had a researcher's mind and an objective view .
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Antonio was a star dancer and he could not take an objective view of the whole.
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Draw conclusions to construct an objective view of the past.
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An objective view Choreographers wish to express themselves through dance because a story, theme or music has inspired them.
way
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In fact a number of sociologists have argued that there is no objective way of measuring the functional importance of positions.
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There is certainly no objective way to compute or scientifically analyze a resolution of the disagreements.
world
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We can not say that there is a separate, solid, objective world which different creatures perceive in different ways.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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objective reality
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I could use an objective opinion on this problem.
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It's always difficult to be objective about such a sensitive issue as abortion.
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Originally, I went to the counselor because I needed an objective opinion about the whole situation.
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Sometimes it's hard to be objective when the situation gets emotional.
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the objective case
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The selection board, which decides on promotions, should be strictly objective .
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There are no objective signs of injury on the body.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Both relatively objective and relatively subjective criteria present other problems.
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But how does this allow a study of style that is objective and exact?
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But it does little to show how the subjective and objective aspects of colour are related.
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I have decided that I should try to be objective instead, and reflect for a moment.
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Is there such a thing as objective reporting?
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The emphasis is on objective analysis of evidence rather than on a subjective impression of any single witness.
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The interests of the shareholders become an objective standard to govern the actions of the directors.