"There are so many unintended circumstances when you try and 'gerrymander' the economic system to try and meet your political objectives.

VOA: standard.2010.01.12

General McChrystal said the key objectives are to improve security and transfer responsibility to the Afghan forces "as rapidly as conditions allow."

VOA: standard.2009.12.03

Ghanem says that as the demand for livestock products continues to grow, governments need to consider these competing objectives and find the right balance.

VOA: standard.2010.02.22

AKE's Drake,speaking to VOA from Aberdeen,Scotland, says the Taliban and other groups have dual political and financial objectives by kidnapping correspondents and other foreigners.

VOA: standard.2009.09.10

And it will undermine the very objectives we are trying to achieve,".

VOA: standard.2009.10.15

Smith-Valade told VOA one of the key communications objectives for the Vancouver Olympics was to present Canada's linguistic duality of English and French, which are also the two languages of the IOC.

VOA: standard.2010.02.25

House Majority Leader, Democrat Steny Hoyer says House and Senate budget plans will be a "broad brush" blueprint to achieve the objectives of repairing the economy in the short-term and putting the U.S.

VOA: standard.2009.03.24

Financial reform, with the unemployment extension and another measure to provide small business tax benefits, are the three major legislative objectives the president and Democratic leaders agreed to focus on before the long summer recess.

VOA: standard.2010.07.19

Khabure said that her best sense of the situation is that the LRA's original objectives were long ago hijacked by the numerous outside groups who benefited from the region's instability and began supporting Kony's rebels.

VOA: standard.2009.08.27

What we've done is refocused. We are refocused on 'why are we there?' And we've rearticulated our core objectives and our core interests in a more defined strategy for how do we actually turn the tide and begin to make progress.

VOA: standard.2009.03.27

"Development is a right and that should continue but that perhaps paths where there could be a reconciliation of the objective of poverty reduction, enhanced standards of living, a life of greater dignity in developing countries can be reconciled with climate objectives by shifting the sources of energy away from the fossil fuels to the cleaner and lower carbon emissions.

VOA: standard.2009.09.01