Russian President Vladimir Putin has set the target of doubling the country's GDP in 10 years.
The UK government set the target of halving child poverty in 2010, ahead of eradicating the problem altogether by 2020, with the Scottish government backing these goals.
Only you and I know whether we are overachieving or underachieving because we establish the rules, set the target, and create the timeframe and deadlines in our own minds.
However, when central banks pay interest on reserves or a deposit facility, this interest rate is rarely the one used to set the target for short-term private sector borrowing rates.
The government may set the inflation target, but the Bank's committee will be left to decide how quickly it should be pursued.
In a wide-ranging package of green energy measures the EU has set itself the target of increasing energy efficiency by 20% by 2020.
The firm has set itself the target of cutting costs by the 90% needed to make fuel cells competitive in vehicles by 2003.
The date of 2015 was set as the target for the MDGs, which include halving poverty in the world and halting the spread of HIV.
She is competing in the Formula 3 British Championship this season and has set herself the target of winning the series in the next year before moving up to Formula 3 international, a recognised route into F1.
After Ramsay had set the clubhouse target with a 67 -- like Daly, he bogeyed the 17th and 18th -- Maybin was still two behind when he turned in 34.
In 1998, the government set 2010 as the target for 12% smoking prevalence (available here).
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But should the bank set a target for the annual inflation rate or for the price level?
President Barack Obama has set Nasa the target of landing a crew on an asteroid in 2025, or very soon after.
They were set the impossible target of 626 to win in two sessions after Surrey earlier declared for 492, Hollioake hitting a career-high 208.
And one more set of figures: back in 2003 the Welsh government set a target of increasing the number of Welsh speakers by 5% by 2011.
He told the Guardian that almost every other advanced country teaches a foreign language from that age, and the UK should set itself the same target.
To hit a target, they would turn the turret towards the target, set the elevation and select how many barrels of powder to put behind the projectile.
Suppose that the Bank of Japan set a target for the price level based on an average inflation rate of 1% since 1998.
However, the service did meet the second target set by the NHS - to respond to 75% of callers reporting a life-threatening emergency within eight minutes.
The biofuels thing this afternoon, there's a report coming out saying that the U.S. is failing to meet the biofuels target set in the '07 energy legislation.
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At the current rate of progress, by 2015 the number of deaths of African children under five will have fallen only to 5m a year, rather than the 2m target set by the MDG.
The government has set end June at the target date for a reform proposal.
And for the first years of the new millennium the NSPCC has set itself the most ambitious target yet.
Thirty-four of the 35 met the target fees set by the user fee law.
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But, he added, the justice secretary had set a target to cut the number of inmates by 3, 000 over four years.
The conference comes at a critical moment, five years from the target date set for the Millenium Development Goals (MDGs) and the Education For All goals.
"We want to achieve the 2 percent target set by the government and Bank of Japan at the earliest possible date, " Haruhiko Kuroda, currently president of the Asian Development Bank, told lawmakers Monday.
Surely this country could reduce CO2 emissions a little more than 7% in 10 years and meet the modest target set out in the Senate climate bill, which appears likely to be introduced next week.
England then declared to set the Jamaicans a notiongal target of 299 in the final session and a bit but a draw appeared to be the likely outcome.
Does the chancellor want to set a new target for the Bank of England?
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