Sentences with phrase «modest goals»

We have set modest goals and have achieved nearly all of them.

It even had a budget, and the Mayor defended its modest goals, quoted in Metro News:

Do we really need to achieve Passivhaus levels of energy efficiency or would more modest goals be more appropriate for historic buildings?

Conventional train tracks, cheaper than planes The Swedes have more modest goals - they want their trains to run on conventional European tracks but to be faster and more efficient than the norm.

Also that year, Washington, Oregon and California created the West Coast Global Warming Initiative, which had more modest goals and seemed to lose steam when two of the three governors involved left office.

Nations were able to make limited progress on the modest goals expected of them, including: clarifying how countries will report their «intended nationally determined [continue reading...]

We need to change the game or we risk implementing very aggressive climate policies to accomplish what the world sees as modest goals.

If you account for population growth, our modest goals see a reduction in per - capita emissions of over 30 % from 2005 levels while the EU goals seek an aggressive 17 % reduction.

Deukmejian came into the governorship with modest goals — fight crime with tougher sentencing laws and new prisons and erase the budget deficit he inherited from his Democratic predecessor, Jerry Brown.

Some Hurricane Harvey victims and housing advocates say a program designed to make flooded residents» homes livable while they await more comprehensive repairs has fallen short of even its modest goals,...

Better to set modest goals for monetary policy of a stable price level with no debt bubbles.

When it comes to using options for investment purposes, it's a good idea to have more modest goals — achievable goals — that build wealth over time, and not immediately.

Approach the building process with modest goals.

From its dire setting, character reactions, and their modest goals of survival, Dragon Head is off to a good start.Title: Dragon Head Genre: Adventure, Mystery, Psychological Publisher: Kodansha (JP), Kodansha Comics (US) Creator: Minetaro Mochizuki Serialized...

While I realize this is at the other end of the spectrum from your business accomplishments, what would a minimalist marketing plan look like for a guy with my modest goals?

You want to make some money, but at this point you're only setting modest goals for yourself.

If Steckler had his way, more seasoned and ambitious teachers would set higher bars, while first - year teachers would have more modest goals.

Modest goals might not be as enticing, but they're much more easily reached.

Gump was a pleasant picture that achieved its modest goals and made a lot of people happy.

Even with such modest goals, Luketic and the writers don't quite hit every mark.

It's nothing remarkable, as it never strives to be anything but pleasant, and it certainly achieves the modest goals set forth.

The two leads are so low - key that they almost disappear at times, but The Quitter is a textured, heartfelt drama that achieves its modest goals.

In terms of its plot structure and intent, X-Men has modest goals, most of which it meets.

500 people with prediabetes randomized into a lifestyle intervention or control group, and during the trial, the risk of diabetes was reduced by that same 50 - 60 %, but only a fraction of the patients met the modest goals.

Accordingly, the President's discretionary R&D budget, released in February, set rather modest goals for federal R&D in FY 2017.

But if you're interested in the more modest goals of infant potty training, you don't need to rely on these signs to decide when to start potty training.

The Sausalito native had bounced from career to career for the first four decades of his life, and had settled on distinctly modest goals for the rest of his life.

To a late 20th - century church that speaks about «economic democracy» and «solidarity with the poor,» these may seem like modest goals, morally speaking.

Following the lead of Yuri Milner's investment company, which put money into companies like Facebook and Twitter, they also have more modest goals: turn a profit, improve their cachet among the start - up community and — as is often the case — learn from the companies in which they are investing.

CNN's modest goals for Tuesday's debate may have been dampened by the unlikely appearance of Joe Biden.

Stack began by choosing three modest goals, which he called «accountabilities»: product quality, safety, and housekeeping (meaning the organization and cleanliness of each work area).

It appears to be to ensure there is a minimum dollar figure attached to someone's hourly labour, though with a raft of unpaid internships in Ontario that are jobs in disguise, we should question how effectively we are meeting even that modest goal.

Campaigns on Indiegogo that have a more modest goal get funded.

Shannon Fest has a modest goal for her 15 - year - old daughter this semester: to make it through a full day of school.

Some writers have the modest goal of integrating homosexual orientation into a life of celibate faithfulness.

That seems a modest goal.

Its more modest goal is to «highlight a view of Jesus that is somewhat different from the one that lies at the heart of Christians» faith.»

Furlong, a local street safety activist who embraced her role as an underdog candidate, said she's hit a roadblock in trying to meet her modest goal of $ 30,000 before the September primary.

Such hang - ups make even President Obama's modest goal of adding 3,000 miles of new transmission lines look wishful.

A well - built IKEA table is a modest goal, but Knepper says he could envision similar algorithms one day being used in autonomous cars.

Robert Gatenby, a molecular oncologist at Moffitt Cancer Center in Tampa, Florida, has a more modest goal: he hopes to help people to live with their disease.

Next month, the European Space Agency will launch a space probe with a deceptively modest goal.

Instead, their more modest goal is to make robot design more cost - effective.

Yohe estimates the cost of achieving a more modest goal of holding warming to roughly 2 degrees C at a cost of 0.5 to 1.5 percent of gross domestic product for the U.S. by 2050, thanks to the expense incurred by, for example, replacing existing coal - fired power plants with renewables or retrofitting them with carbon - capture technology.

The Einstein program has the more modest goal of recruiting at least 100,000 volunteers, says director Bruce Allen, a physicist at the University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee.

If not, let's pick a modest goal for the initial phase of your walking to lose weight campaign, namely, one mile in 30 minutes.

i was led to believe it might be half as funny as billy madison and happy gilmore, and it did not come close to that modest goal.

This time, the back - from - the - dead foe is an ancient Chinese emperor (Jet Li) with a modest goal: world domination.

A modest goal, modestly stated.

After the humans have become superhumans, the story doesn't do much except contriving a way for the four heroes to fight as a team against evil megalomaniac Doom, whose modest goal is to suck our planet into a black hole.