The captains wanted to consider practical and realistic objectives given their situation.

The chairman suggested that they stick to practical objectives.

In addition to the concern of aesthetic value, the Vogue was also constructed with practical objectives.

They get together, he said, for commercial, religious, moral and practical objectives - or "to proclaim a truth."

And the most practical objective during the next forty-eight hours was to immobilize the man with the codes.

Conversely, practical objectives often make for strange political alliances.

"The most important part are the words 'practical objective,"' he added.

Whatever the theory and rationalization, the practical objective is the constant improvement of the state's own relative power position.

I think it absolutely crucial that we set practical objectives for when the individual EU countries are to have reached a figure of 0.7%.

We need to describe still more clearly the practical objectives we have put forward with regard, for example, to water and energy issues.