Sentences with phrase «more unattainable goal»

Not exact matches

Just because it takes more work for you to achieve something than it does for someone else does not make the goal unattainable!

Many now believe NCLB's goals of 100 percent proficiency in math and reading by 2014 are unattainable — and U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan says more than 82 percent of the nation's schools would have been penalized for failing to make progress towards those goals this year.

Since the ultimate goal of NCLB, that 100 percent of students would be proficient on state tests by 2014, was widely acknowledged as unattainable, more and more schools were failing to make AYP as we approached that deadline.

More than thirty - five - feet tall, the ladder narrows toward the top, creating a distorted sense of perspective that evokes an unattainable or illusionary goal.

Worse yet, people everywhere wish to live more like we do here in the US — a goal that is unattainable and unsustainable.

If policy on climate change waits until things are certain, it will be far too late (after all, there are still lots of arguments about what has happened in the past 100, 1000 or more years — certainty is generally an illusive, unattainable goal on the really interesting problems and questions).

Put more crudely, setting mitigation policy goals that can not and will not be met, either because they are aiming beyond the scope of the knowable and do - able or because national political interests make them unrealistic and unattainable, is itself in practice less ethical than setting goals that are lower, but more readily achievable.

With this criticism: ``... setting mitigation policy goals that can not and will not be met, either because they are aiming beyond the scope of the knowable and do - able or because national political interests make them unrealistic and unattainable, is itself in practice less ethical than setting goals that are lower, but more readily achievable.»

But are you likely to be any more persuasive when you're striving toward the unattainable goal of perfection?