How To Use Attainable In A Sentence
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Could the hearts of kings and the counsels of cabinets be known with that literal exactness which is so desirable in politics, and yet so unattainable, we should probably find that Prussia's apparent readiness to lead Germany was owing to her determination that German armies should be led nowhere to the assistance of Austria.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 07, No. 39, January, 1861
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The second is to realise when the goal is unattainable and turn the envy towards an achievable outcome.
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It is an ambitious target, but Leblanc believes it is attainable.
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But I speak with practical accuracy when I give that title to such views as on the whole affirm the attainableness here below of a spiritual condition in which man needs no longer confess himself as now a sinner, and in which his attention tends to be drawn more to his perfectness than to his imperfections of condition.
Philippian Studies Lessons in Faith and Love from St. Paul's Epistle to the Philippians
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Some economists think that full employment in Europe is an unattainable goal.
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It appears that the maximum plasma temperature attainable by ohmic heating in a tokamak is 20-30 million degrees Celsius.
Nuclear fusion power
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Measurable by him who hath time, weighable by a good weigher, attainable by strong pinions, divinable by divine nut-crackers: thus did my dream find the world: --
Thus Spake Zarathustra A book for all and none
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It is easy to see the superrich as different, with gilded and unattainable lives.
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Role models do seem to play an important part, but seem to have the most impact if they present an attainable target.
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Their affection blossoms into love which is unfortunately unattainable.
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So far, cooperative parenting remains an unattainable goal for this couple.
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Throughout, this central character becomes involved with false muses all the while brushing by the true muse of unattainable perfection - the only role with pointe work.
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Never stop just because you feel defeated. The journey to the other side is attainable only after great suffering. Santosh Kalwar
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Remember that susceptibility testing is not too meaningful for "simple" otitis externa, as it is based upon attainable BLOOD levels of antibiotics.
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But now I'm determined to be my own person and set attainable goals.
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Dreaming is something that occurs while we are asleep, and it is usually something unattainable that we dream about.
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They experiment and they set themselves tough, but attainable, targets.
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jibs" might be seen perambulating the courts, in the vain effort to discover their tutors 'chambers, the names having undergone an alteration that left all trace of their original proprietors unattainable: Doctor
Charles O'Malley — Volume 1
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Drawing on Kohut’s 1971 examination of “self-pathology,” Goodsitt posited an unattainable, noncohesive sense of self, which interferes with the patient’s processing external stimuli, be it food or information.
Clinical Work with Adolescents
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In the back of any fitness enthusiast's mind is a series of attainable and unattainable goals.
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The mixture of resentment, nostalgia and love for an unattainable home underpins the documentary.
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The youngest is Pfeni, a travel writer who never stays in one place for long, and has a penchant for unattainable men.
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I know squadoosh about David DeJesus given who he plays for but I'm wondering .... .what people think of him and whether he's attainable and helpful as a potential answer to the RF situation.
Federal Baseball
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Monthly, students and instructors set attainable goals and formularize an individual study plan for each student.
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Meanwhile, the run on Roast Chicken rendered it unattainable within a very short time.
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Past accomplishments include in-situ sampling of atmospheric and magnetospheric regions that neither orbital spacecraft nor standard aircraft can reach, examining physical phenomena in microgravity conditions that are unattainable on the ground or only briefly available in drop towers and zero-g aircraft, using instruments too massive for spacecraft to detect cosmic rays that cannot be detected from the ground, and testing scientific instruments before committing to orbital or interplanetary flight.
Next Generation: NASA Offers Grants for New-Space Research Concepts
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In either case it lacks the fusion of undeviatingly precise, inexorable discipline with imaginative originality and wide range, and that combination of intensity, lyricism, and elegance which had raised the Russian ballet to its former unattainable height.
The Arts in Russia Under Stalin
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It certainly seems unattainable, but one cannot discount its possibility.
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Von Bulow makes this statement: "As the peculiar fingering adopted by Chopin for chromatic scales in thirds appears to us to render their performance in legatissimo utterly unattainable on our modern instruments, we have exchanged it, where necessary, for the older method of Hummel.
Chopin : the Man and His Music
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Inevitably in the fast-moving world of aerial combat, their noble goal was not always attainable.
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a mellowness of light and shade not attainable in marble
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Sadly, the most easily-attainable sources for iodine are iodized salt and sea products, both of which can be taboo for pregnant women.
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FRISCO - A prospective home owner's meeting will be hosted today for the new Peak One attainable-housing neighborhood in Frisco.
Summit Daily News - Top Stories
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How could she live without falling into despair with love so near and yet unattainable?
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The task of establishing a monopoly of force is a long way off; but military supremacy is attainable.
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Another 25-win season is attainable, particularly if San Diego State's tradition of playing a relatively soft nonconference slate continues.
SAN Diego State - Team Notes
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For the genetic engineers, the grail of nitrogen-fixation remains unattainable.
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Yet Sarah Palin's leaked demands (including three deluxe hotel rooms, a private aircraft that "must be a Lear 60 or larger", and a "bendable" straw) have made her not only the envy of our former expense-claiming MPs, for whom a simple moat is now an unattainable dream, but also the peer of many rock stars.
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This standard is easily attainable by most students.
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When we were 12 or 15 it was an unattainable goal of how you wished your life to be.
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Rather than declaring another set of unattainable goals, the EU should instead reform to a multispeed al la carte, to please the French model.
More European Commission Means Less Democracy
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Work in the moment and set attainable goals for six months or a year.
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That is how advertising works: it presents an unattainable ideal and then invites you to spend money on failing to attain it.
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We are built this way, and though we might strive for an ideal of non-being as exampled by the perfect servant above, it is against our nature to do so and may be unattainable.
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The only reason not to retire would be that he has attainable goals.
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For the time being McConnell says that is probably unattainable.
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The most important of these results consisted in this, that the electromotive force produced in a "shunt-wound machine," as it was called, increased with the external resistance, whereby the great fluctuations formerly inseparable from electric arc lighting could be obviated, and thus, by the double means of exciting the electro-magnets, still greater uniformity of current was attainable.
Scientific American Supplement, No. 384, May 12, 1883
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They are also a so-called attainable luxury, offering wine and food that is reasonably priced.
Raising the Bar: A Fine Time for Wine
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Most students find that the first job does eventually come along, and even that elusive Equity card is attainable.
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If only peace of mind were so easily attainable.
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To the pragmatist the realist is hoping for something unattainable: in this case a foundation outside our ethics for our ethics to stand on.
The Times Literary Supplement
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choose an attainable goal
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Meeting these attainable short-term goals and progressively crossing them off the list can provide an important sense of achievement and reinforcement.
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Houran's studies indicate that the most deeply obsessed also show signs of erotomania, the delusion of having a love affair with an unattainable or uninterested person.
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If androgyny proved unattainable in a small socialist society whose citizens self-selected for radical feminist convictions, how could one bring it about in contemporary America, where most people don't want it?
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It is unrealistic to believe perfection is an attainable goal.
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Set yourself up for success by determining an attainable goal such as exercising twice in the week, once on weekends.
The Sun
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To enter this realm is to fervently believe that such a physique is not exclusive to the genetically gifted but is attainable by anybody, young or old, male or female, fat or skinny, rich or poor.
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Never stop just because you feel defeated. The journey to the other side is attainable only after great suffering. Santosh Kalwar
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at concentrations attainable after moderate wine intake" could stimulate the production of nitric oxide, a compound known as a vasodilator, which can lead to blood vessel relaxation, reductions in blood pressure, and improvements in heart health.
NutraIngredients-USA RSS
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The outer movements are undistinguished but the central adagio swoons with escapist yearnings for the unattainable.
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We who feel that the real is unattainable, or at least ungraspable, for us does salvation lie only in seclusion, in retreat, like a star abandoning its constellation?
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This target should be attainable.
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Scooping his hand into the same scientific elbow-rest as before, and backing it up with the inert strength of his arm, as skilfully as a Police Expert, and with an apparent repose quite unattainable by novices, Mr. Crisparkle conducts his pupil to the pleasant and orderly old room prepared for him.
The Mystery of Edwin Drood
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Affirms that the human right to safe drinking water and sanitation is derived from the right to an adequate standard of living and inextricably related to the right to the highest attainable standard of physical and mental health, as well as the right to life and human dignity
Peter H. Gleick: A Long Time Coming: The Human Right to Water
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The whole point of a centerfold is her unattainability, but with hard-core porn, it’s precisely the reverse: the star isn’t just attainable, she’s already being attained, and the user gets to be in on the action.
Is Pornography Adultery?
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To the pragmatist the realist is hoping for something unattainable: in this case a foundation outside our ethics for our ethics to stand on.
The Times Literary Supplement
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He was a teenager in the grip of a strong, young passion, and Bess was his unattainable beloved.
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However, in the U.S., such decisions have increasingly become pathological obsessions, as men become more and more subject to unattainable body ideals.
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Have a look at this for a brilliant exposé of how the real flesh, blood, mousy hair and freckles of a 'dowdy' girl next door can be transformed into an unattainable goddess.
Supermodel Erin O'Connor slams fashion world for lying to women
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There are those who argue that true independent advice is unattainable.
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Whatever may be said of the wind as a cheap agent of locomotion, this much may be safely predicated of steam vessels for the mails; that their time of departure and arrival has an absolute fixity which is attainable by no other means, and which is highly conducive to the best interests of all those for whom commerce is conducted.
Ocean Steam Navigation and the Ocean Post
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The building then creates a climbable section to reach a tag section previously unattainable.
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And without denying the pleasantness of the mode of progression which Mr. Hazlitt, perhaps too enthusiastically, describes as attainable in a background of
On the Old Road Vol. 1 (of 2) A Collection of Miscellaneous Essays and Articles on Art and Literature
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As I learned in writing Virtue, Valor, and Vanity: The Founding Fathers and the Pursuit of Fame, Alexander Hamilton was no less ambitious than Ryan Seacrest -- but to Hamilton and the other founders, fame was different then from what it is now, attainable only through civic benefaction, which is to say, only through taking steps to make life better for others.
Eric Burns: The Founding Celebrities
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It is not unattainable, it is within the reach and grasp of all who strive and aspire to have it.
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In their elephant-cord hipsters, tab-collared shirts and Carnaby Street suede laceups, they exuded an ineffable and hopelessly unattainable cool.
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The new model of fitness is no longer an unattainable physical ideal.
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Just because something may be physically unattainable is no need to stop striving for it.
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It is true, of course, that perfect objectivity in news reporting is unattainable.
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Alexander was unattainable for he took command of moving the ship down the makeshift slipway toward the tidal flats.
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As the highest speed attainable by open aerenoids, which were used mainly for pleasure, was but eight miles an hour, my journey of five miles gave me ample time for meditation; and when I at last alighted on the balcony of a small white marble villa, to which I had instinctively guided my aerenoid, I had fully determined upon what I felt to be the only honorable course to pursue.
Zarlah the Martian
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And Home Front is sort of like the glossy magazine - it's absolutely unattainable - that's the top-shelf version really, the soft porn.
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But agreement on the necessary constitutional changes looks unattainable.
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For one thing, Kurt's pretty much only presented as a sort of unattainable ideal.
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When he speaks of stupid and intelligent faces he is a physiognomist; he sees that there are intellectual foreheads and microcephalic ones, and is thus a craniologist; he observes the expression of fear and of joy, and so observes the principles of imitation; he contemplates a fine and elegant hand in contrast with a fat and mean hand, and therefore assents to the effectiveness of chirognomy; he finds one hand-writing scholarly and fluid, another heavy, ornate and unpleasant; so he is dealing with the first principles of graphology; -- all these observations and inferences are nowhere denied, and nobody can say where their attainable boundaries lie.
Criminal Psychology: a manual for judges, practitioners, and students
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In so far as a science of geometry is possible at all, the exactness, which is its essential characteristic, is only {11} attainable by starting from data which are in themselves impossible, as of a point which has no magnitude, of a line which has no breadth, of a surface which has no thickness.
A Short History of Greek Philosophy
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The great contest now in progress has taught us afresh the potency of those material agencies through which patriotic zeal must act, and we shall hereafter lack all good excuse for _not_ having the very best attainable system of producing, preserving, providing, and using whatever implements, supplies, and muniments our future may demand.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 12, No. 74, December, 1863
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Measurable by him who hath time, weighable by a good weigher, attainable by strong pinions, divinable by divine nut – crackers: thus did my dream find the world: —
Thus spake Zarathustra; A book for all and none
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If you do = that you can make longer shots, not saying you have to or should shoot at 800 yards but hits at 400-600 yards will be attainable with consistancy!!!
Long Range Hunting
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In the back of any fitness enthusiast's mind is a series of attainable and unattainable goals.
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According to the EU commission press release, Le Plan "continues to deliver results" and the target of saving 25,000 lives on Europe's roads by 2010 is "attainable".
Archive 2007-04-01
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We must ensure that we do not set ourselves goals that are not attainable.
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You believe in the way human beings talk about the unknowable, reach for the unattainable, pattern their imperfect lives and offer their paltry best up to the beingless being that created the universe and powers its continuation.
A Monstrous Regiment of Women
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There we find the superposition of essay and fiction in Mosca's work: responding to the need to offer ourselves our own story, of grabbing hold of our subalternity as prime material, through which we can get closer to our truth - our being-in-itself, Sartre would say -, attainable only through "liberational" writing and reading.
Venepoetics
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The problem is that for most men, as for most women, that ideal is unattainable.
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What is an attainable goal?
The Guide to Greatness in Sales
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Given infinite time and space, this seems to me like a perfectly reasonable goal and not only attainable but inevitable.
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Once you identify your authentic expertise, the path toward becoming a successful author may seem clearer and more attainable, which is one of many good reasons to invest your time in the process.
Arielle Ford: Simple Ways to Pinpoint Your True Expertise
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Why is a traditional middle class lifestyle increasingly unattainable?
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How long should they continue to bleed for their unattainable aim?
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In Trinidad, where storage of up to 4 weeks is usually regarded as attainable, pre-harvest spraying with maleic hydrazide or treating the harvested tubers with MENA in acetone inhibited sprouting when the tubers were stored for
Chapter 30
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Hungary's deficit target of 3.8 percent of gross domestic product, approved by the EU and IMF, is "attainable" with changes in spending and revenue plans, said Varga, who a week earlier estimated the shortfall may exceed 7 percent.
Bloomberg
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I am happy to report that almost all of the recipes have what I refer to as attainable ingredients.
Home Ec 101
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Some economists think that full employment in Europe is an unattainable goal.
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So when we say five per cent growth rate - that is an attainable target by the end of 2005.
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The object the drive excessively fixates upon, meanwhile, is in no sense an ersatz or secondary substitute for an impossible, unattainable object; for the drive, there is no ‘thing-in-itself’.
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The government's target of 3.5% annual growth seems easily attainable.
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When wounded he betakes himself to the highest attainable point of the tree, and emits a singular cry, consisting at first of high notes, which at length deepen into a low roar, not unlike that of a panther.
Essays
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To the simple and ardent idealist its white stateliness must always suggest something symbolic, and, after all, it is the ardent and simple idealist whose dreams and symbols paint to prosaic human minds the beautiful impossibilities whose unattainable loveliness so allures as to force even the unexalted world into the endeavour to create such reproductions of their forms as crude living will allow.
In Connection with the De Willoughby Claim
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Keep hopes and dreams attainable, as grandiose schemes could dent your confidence if they don't pan out.
The Sun
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Meeting these attainable short-term goals and progressively crossing them off the list can provide an important sense of achievement and reinforcement.
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Perfection is a laudable aim in sport but rarely, if ever, is it attainable.
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Once we believe the goals are attainable, we invest the effort and resources necessary to ensure success.
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What that means in real terms is that nobody thinks about him for most of the year and then shouts his name obsessively during Wimbledon, throwing their unattainable expectations behind him until his inevitable quarter-final knock-out.
Sports Personality Of The Year 2006 Betting Odds – Shaun Murphy
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It is not unattainable, it is within the reach and grasp of all who strive and aspire to have it.
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There were moments amid the deepening darkness when it seemed virtually impossible to reach the summit; the stars now lighted a glowing sapphirine sky, but that only made the venerable town in all its majesty seem ever more unattainable.
Vittorio, The Vampire
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However, it may be unfair to accuse the candidates of failing to attain the unattainable.
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There are those who argue that true independent advice is unattainable.
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It is a ridiculous sentimentalism that would deny ourselves oil that is peacefully attainable because it risks disrupting the breeding grounds of Arctic reindeer.
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Inevitably in the fast-moving world of aerial combat, their noble goal was not always attainable.
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So they sort of subconsciously hypnotise themselves into believing that rich girls are genuinely hotter and more of a sexual prize - and that, in pursuing them, they're genuinely driven by white-hot sexual lust for an unattainable princess.
EX MEN 2 : The Aftermath
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Without the meteorograph, rigid accuracy in the observation of shooting stars is unattainable, and rigid accuracy is the
A Popular History of Astronomy During the Nineteenth Century Fourth Edition
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Fitness goals become attainable as Mercury turns thoughts to action.
The Sun
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It is potentially possible but in effect an unattainable ideal.
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Whether or not he achieves what many believe to be an unattainable goal is, in many ways, irrelevant.
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Planting trees is simple, attainable and the results can be seen right away.
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The reality of sport is a grim striving after attainable goals.
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If that is sustained, his target of a podium finish if and when India plays host to its maiden grand prix in two years may be attainable.
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He wanted secretly to pursue a more artistic path but his circumstances seemed to make that unattainable.
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But beyond, and high above all, as if the spirits of the air had suddenly unveiled their bright abodes, placed in scaleless altitude in the stainless sky, heaven-kissing, companions of the unattainable ether, were the glorious Alps, clothed in dazzling robes of light by the setting sun.
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This plan includes measurable, attainable goals for growth and ministry as well as a system of accountability.
Christianity Today
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This is not an unattainable ideal.
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To close this discourse, I shall only from it obviate a putid calumny cast by the Papists, Quakers, and others of the same confederacy, against the grace of God, upon the doctrine of the free justification of a sinner, through the imputation of the righteousness of Christ: for with a shameless impudence they clamour on all by whom it is asserted, as those who maintain salvation to be attainable through a mere external imputation of righteousness; whilst those so saved are
Pneumatologia
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This superior wisdom is only attainable through the practice of meditation.
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The fog bank was unattainable and rather than surrender, Kennedy opened fire against both vessels with his antique and wholly inadequate guns.
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The ability to see for one's self is attainable, not by mixing with crowds and ascertaining how they look at things, but by a certain aloofness and self-containment.
How Books Become Immortal
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Proportionate justice is neither attainable nor desirable.
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Keep hopes and dreams attainable, as grandiose schemes could dent your confidence if they don't pan out.
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After that, once unattainable goals move within reach.
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Measurable by him who hath time, weighable by a good weigher, attainable by strong pinions, divinable by divine nutcrackers: thus did my dream find the world: -
Thus Spake Zarathustra
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At first she thought it was an unattainable dream but that changed when she discovered that she would qualify for financial aid.
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Furthermore, management needs to provide clear and unambivalent boundaries to the efforts of the engineers to ensure the technological innovations and ideas stay focused and attainable.
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A thin ribbon that separates unparalleled views from unattainable wealth, the walk is a welcome balm to the landlocked masses.
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It certainly seems unattainable, but one cannot discount its possibility.
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Characters take turns bemoaning their frustrations or looking at the unattainable perfection of the stars.
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He said the company's "attainable" goal is eight hours of active battery life.
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With around six partners bringing in at least a million a year each, 20m is easily attainable.
The Sun
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I agree that it's cruel to daughters and wives to raise the stakes of beauty to an unattainable level just to spite the glitterati.
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Whether this led them to choose unattainable people or whether their past experiences of unrequited love caused them to feel anxious, we cannot know.
EMOTIONAL ROLLERCOASTER: A Journey Through the Science of Feelings
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Escher worked in endless repetition, attainable here with a click.
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But it will allow Japan to ram through procedural changes which will make that goal more attainable.
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Here in Drottningholm, it doesn't seem such an unattainable ideal.
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In this paper we show how to mark these accessible, acquirable attainable levels of the sharing system through case study of Shanghai science and technology literature resource sharing system.
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A female figure might have represented Liberty, but for real women she remained an unattainable ideal.
Liberty: The Lives and Times of Six Women in Revolutionary France
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For example, losing 20 pounds in three months is a realistic and attainable goal.
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It shows a young musician who, in a series of opium-induced dreams, pursues his unattainable Beloved or idée fixe through a ballroom, an idyllic landscape, a prison, and a witches' sabbath where she appears hideously transformed.
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But at the moment what she wants most is looking more unattainable.
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Increased amounts of bias will reduce the maximum attainable speed. The top speed with maximum bias is approximately 55 mph!
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Heat-bodying will also effect some enhancement in transparency of the medium and lower the tendency for specular scatter at the pigment/medium interface, augmenting the degree of colour saturation attainable.
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That would make the manly guys look like victims of a naturally unattainable standard of beauty.
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This way of approaching the game generally takes a lot of pressure off a player, and makes her goals more attainable.
Winning Golf for Women
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For most of the truly poor, a better life simply seems an unattainable dream.
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We believe that this level of performance is fully attainable.
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You may get a lot of admiration and recognition for the efficient way you help others, but it also makes you look like an unattainable person.
POSITIVE THINKING: Everything you have always known about positive thinking but were afraid to put into practice
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He likes to casually bang Cameron Diaz, but he falls in love with the less attainable Penelope Cruz it is a credit to Cruz that she makes this situation seem plausible; Penelope is so cute in this film that I found myself siding with Cruise and thinking, “Why the hell would anyone want to have sex with a repulsive hosebag like Cameron Diaz?”
Chuck Klosterman on Film and Television
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'reactivity' - machine to human, and 'interactivity' - a level of exchange attainable only through human to human interaction.
WN.com - Articles related to Using internet search to reduce purchase risk
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But all advertising is built upon unattainable ideals.
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impedimenta" thus bring to the race that has them a wealth of life both physical and psychical, practical and ideal, that is otherwise unattainable.
Evolution Of The Japanese, Social And Psychic
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In fact, perfect information is the unattainable holy grail, but dotcom business brings it that little bit closer.
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Acknowledging that there were limits to human knowledge, he had declared it unattainable.
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There we find the superposition of essay and fiction in Mosca's work: responding to the need to offer ourselves our own story, of grabbing hold of our subalternity as prime material, through which we can get closer to our truth - our being-in-itself, Sartre would say -, attainable only through "liberational" writing and reading.
Venepoetics
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These shows always stress the unattainable as a goal, whether it's a rich man, or a beautiful woman.
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Inevitably in the fast-moving world of aerial combat, their noble goal was not always attainable.
Times, Sunday Times
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Long hours, mysterious forced injections for female workers and unattainable quotas are the hallmark of factories on the Massacre river.
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Part science fiction, part picaresque, and part burlesque, its alphabetized entries gesture provocatively, giving glimpses of their source's unattainable body.
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We believe that this level of performance is fully attainable.
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Grappling with neocon ideals and non-existent states was much less attractive, or even attainable, for others.
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In the first, she's enjoying the unattainable luxuries of first class.
The Sun
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The first two are easily attainable with a bit of luck.
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Given infinite time and space, this seems to me like a perfectly reasonable goal and not only attainable but inevitable.
Times, Sunday Times
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Having a third of it drafted is very reassuring: the end seems so much more attainable from here than from zero: I mean, 250 pages is little enough room that I start worrying about running out of space rather than how on earth am I going to fill this with interesting narrative?
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Ensure That Goals Are Perceived as Attainable.
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I don't think it was in our heads that it was an unattainable goal.
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He studied all the books of chemistry which at that period were attainable, — a period when, in the world, it was a science far unlike what it has since become; and when Septimius had no instruction in this country, nor could obtain any beyond the dark, mysterious, charlatanic communications of Doctor Portsoaken.
Septimius Felton, or, The elixir of life
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We hanker for the perfect space, but it's an unattainable goal.
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This universe existed in the shape of darkness, unperceived , destitute of distinctive marks, unattainable by reasoning, unknowable, wholly immersed, as it were, in deep sleep.
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It endured forever in its own special dimension of time - ageless, never dimming entirely from memory, forever after unattainable.
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But ahead lay a quagmire, a demoralising contest in which progress was unmeasurable and victory unattainable.
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Sadly, the most easily-attainable sources for iodine are iodized salt and sea products, both of which can be taboo for pregnant women.
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None of this bright Gothic art was ever done but either by faith in the attainableness of felicity in heaven, or under conditions of real order and delicate loveliness on the earth.
Lectures on Landscape Delivered at Oxford in Lent Term, 1871
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The government's target of 3.5% annual growth seems easily attainable.
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Once we believe the goals are attainable, we invest the effort and resources necessary to ensure success.
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Their strategy was to claim that output targets were unattainable, and not to attain them.
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Infantilise it as the "Inner Child" of the self-help charlatans though, idealise it in a sexually-retarded prepubescence, project that unreturnable infancy onto an unattainable other, and you're asking for the trouble that comes to Barrie's Pan or Sinisalo's Angel.
Poland Won, Bad Points Nil
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In general, Mattera uses the cloudy effects attainable with encaustic to disguise the logic of her enterprise.
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We believe that this level of performance is fully attainable.
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From the partial representations of narrow-minded bigots, who paint the Deity from their own gloomy conceptions, the young are too often frighted from the paths of virtue; despairing of ideal perfections, they give up all virtue as unattainable, and start aside from the road which they falsely suppose strewed with thorns.
The History of Emily Montague
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an unattainable goal
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The outer movements are undistinguished but the central adagio swoons with escapist yearnings for the unattainable.