The problem with the Kosovo business was they went into it without really a serious political objective.
It's a war in which an enemy will kill innocent men, women and children in order to achieve a political objective.
Up to now, sanctions have failed in their main political objective to persuade Iran to change course by committing itself to verifiably peaceful nuclear development.
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Whoever may be responsible, they say, cannot remain in the shadows for long if the chaos they are trying to achieve has a political objective.
"In fact its motivation is to support not people but a political objective - the maximisation of the movement of people to undermine national identities, " he argued.
Now if they went into it saying, as you suggest, that they were going to have a multi-ethnic society at least that would have been a political objective.
He suggested that the Russians likely planted the material on Fogle for dramatic effect, perhaps to stir up anti-American sentiment, achieve a political objective, or distract attention from some other matter.
Five trillion dollars in new debt will allow Obama to pursue his second-term political objective of a bigger and more intrusive federal government that serves his interests and those of his political allies.
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And to insert as a political objective a provision like this that would try to speed up the process would only result in its -- in the State Department -- based on my reading of their statement -- in the State Department having to say, given no other course, having to say no.
We have shown that our people are indeed capable of easily making a distinction between a desire for renewal and political provocations whose sole objective is to destroy Russian statehood and usurp power.
Their objective is raw political power and the eventual radicalization of all 1.3 billion Muslims worldwide.
Strategic and tactical flexibility should be taken into account, but do not mitigate the threat posed by the objective toward which any political force is striving.
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The government has extended its timeframe for eliminating the structural deficit beyond the next election due in 2015 but Moody's believes the UK will ultimately meet its objective given the "political will" to do so and the "fundamental underlying" strengths of the economy.
Communist China has recently surfaced as a major player in the continent's affairs, in an attempt both to put a stranglehold on Africa's natural resources - especially its oil, which currently accounts for nearly 30 percent of Chinese imports - and to cultivate alliances that will increase its weight in the international political arena, with a primary objective being the diplomatic isolation of democratic Taiwan.
That is a worthwhile objective, but Washington should avoid political meddling during the transition.
Although private companies certainly have a right to select which transactions to process or not, the political environment produced less than a fair and objective decision.
Yet, Republicans insist on moving forward with an effort that Republicans and objective legal experts have noted is purely political.
Fernandez claims- based on the recent scandal involving the firing of several US Attorneys - that in the US, prosecutors are political appointees and respond to Presidential policies not to objective justice.
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The main objective of IPBES is to promote awareness among political decision-makers and the general public of the disastrous consequences of biodiversity loss.
At the very least, it was a chance for Khan to allay concerns about the attitude of such a highly placed individual towards the Islamists' stealthy efforts to advance the repressive theo-political-legal code they call Shariah and its stated objective of global Islamic rule under a theocratic leader.
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Like these other ideologues, their unalterable objective is the destruction of our Constitution, democratic political system and freedom-loving country.
But if there are two tax reform plans that achieve the same objective, why pick the approach that faces greater political obstacles?
Socialists want their objective to be achieved by reconstruction of the existing political system (especially capitalist) through peaceful and democratic means, whereas communists want to resort to extreme force and revolution.
Our foremost objective now is to improve the security situation to make political and economic development possible.
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But the economic system has become so pervaded by political privilege that asking politicians for help has become the principal lobbying objective in Washington.
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While the Soviet Union may have receded for the moment from these demands by settling for a more ambiguous formulation of the resolution and an affirmation that political and diplomatic measures would receive maximum use, the principal Soviet objective seems to have been served: to delay U.S. action and to increase the pressure against unilateral American military steps.
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