Purpose of the investment is purely to achieve one or more social objectives through the operation of the company, no personal gain is desired by the investors.

FORBES: On Civil Society

These objectives are achieved in co-operation with competent non-governmental and intergovernmental organizations, and through networking of specialized centres of excellence that organize training activities, workshops and research projects on a collaborative basis.

UNESCO: Basic Sciences

These objectives are achieved in co-operation with scientific non-governmental and intergovernmental organizations, and with networks of scientists and specialized centres of excellence, for organizing of training activities, workshops and research projects on a collaborative basis.

UNESCO: Basic Sciences

An Iraqi war might thus put America back into its unilateralist box, which would not help it in the wider war against terror, and might complicate several of its other foreign-policy objectives, such as winning Russian co-operation for missile defences.

ECONOMIST: Dealing with Iraq

They can afford to be driven by different objectives that remain mutually beneficial at their scale of operation.

FORBES: Social Business Is A More Moral Form of Business: Discuss

Today's paper says, "even when US forces are committed to a large-scale operation in one region, they will be capable of denying the objectives of - or imposing unacceptable costs on - an opportunistic aggressor in a second region".

BBC: Re-ordering of priorities in new US defence strategy