(n.) The mark set to bound a race, and to or around which the constestants run, or from which they start to return to it again; the place at which a race or a journey is to end.
(n.) The final purpose or aim; the end to which a design tends, or which a person aims to reach or attain.
(n.) A base, station, or bound used in various games; in football, a line between two posts across which the ball must pass in order to score; also, the act of kicking the ball over the line between the goal posts.
Example Sentences:
(1) The Frenchman’s 65th-minute goal was a fifth for United and redemptive after he conceded the penalty from which CSKA Moscow took a first-half lead.
(2) The goals in control patients were to attain normal values for all hemodynamic measurements.
(3) The goals of treatment are the restoration of normal gut peristalsis and the correction of nutritional deficiencies.
(4) A dedicated goal makes a big difference in mobilising action and resources.
(5) The successful treatment of the painful neuroma remains an elusive surgical goal.
(6) Other than failing to get a goal, I couldn’t ask for anything more.” From Lambert’s perspective there was an element of misfortune about the first and third goals, with Willian benefitting from handy ricochets on both occasions.
(7) The initiation of clinical trials should be a primary goal of gene therapy research programs.
(8) Looks like some kind of dissent, with Ameobi having words with Phil Dowd at the kick off after Liverpool's second goal.
(9) As James said in Friday’s announcement, his goal was to win championships, and in Miami he was able to reach the NBA Finals every year.
(10) Tests in which the size of the landmark was altered from that used in training suggest that distance is not learned solely in terms of the apparent size of the landmark as seen from the goal.
(11) Still, even as unknowable as this decision may be for him, as any decision is, really, he is far more qualified to understand his desires and goals that would inform that decision than anyone else is.
(12) As evidence, they show no mediated semantic-phonological priming during picture naming: Retrieval of sheep primes goat, but the activation of goat is not transmitted to its phonological relative, goal.
(13) There is no doubt that new techniques in molecular biology will continue to evolve so that the goal of gene therapy for many disorders may be possible in the future.
(14) Four goals, four assists, and constant movement have been a key part of the team’s success.
(15) The London Olympics delivered its undeniable panache by throwing a large amount of money at a small number of people who were set a simple goal.
(16) We outline a protocol for presenting the diagnosis of pseudoseizure with the goal of conveying to the patient the importance of knowing the nonepileptic nature of the spells and the need for psychiatric follow-up.
(17) This goal seems to have been met as indicated by an evaluation received from the students, since 58.3 percent believed they better understood the role of the technologist and clinical laboratory in patient care.
(18) Abe’s longstanding efforts toward those goals, which include the successful passage of a state secrets act and efforts to expand the scope of Japan’s military activities have already damaged relations with China.
(19) Estonia had been reduced to 10 men early in the second half yet Hodgson’s men had to toil away for another 25 minutes before the goal, direct from Wayne Rooney’s free-kick, that soothed their mood and maintained their immaculate start to this qualifying programme.
(20) For each of the goals, some were far from complying.
Rubicon
Definition:
(n.) A small river which separated Italy from Cisalpine Gaul, the province alloted to Julius Caesar.
Example Sentences:
(1) The Mail branded the deal "a grim day for all who value freedom" and, like the Times, accused David Cameron of crossing the Rubicon and threatening press freedom for the first time since newspapers were licensed in the 17th century.
(2) He said he accepted the principle of independent regulation, arguing that the current system "is badly broken and it has let down victims" – but insisted that any proposal to underpin a new regulator with a law, as proposed by Leveson, would "cross the Rubicon" of state intervention into press freedom.
(3) On 1 August Palmer told Guardian Australia his senators were firmly against any Medicare co-payment on the basis it “crosses the Rubicon” on access to free healthcare.
(4) The prime minister has said a press law would be "crossing the Rubicon" but it is understood that a "dab of statute" which would underpin a royal charter and ban the privy council from amending any charter would be acceptable to Associated, News International and the Telegraph.
(5) Glasenberg, says one person who knows how much he anguished over the decision to take Glencore public, is well aware that he "has crossed the Rubicon".
(6) He believes the prime minister's main reservation, his "Rubicon", has been addressed.
(7) It is the historian who has decided for his own reasons that Caesar’s crossing of that petty stream, the Rubicon, is a fact of history, whereas the crossing of the Rubicon by millions of other people before or since interests nobody at all.” The speeches we believe to be most decisive can come only from those speeches we have heard about.
(8) He was taken to Govan police station, the base for Operation Rubicon, the inquiry set up to investigate alleged perjury at the trial.
(9) In 1986 he made perhaps his biggest blunder, his infamous "Rubicon" speech.
(10) Tony Yates, a professor of economics at Birmingham University and a former Bank insider, says: “Once they’ve crossed the Rubicon of doing it, what would be to stop the political clamour for using QE to pay for something else?
(11) I have three concerns: First, a change in the law to permit assisted suicide would cross a fundamental legal and ethical Rubicon.
(12) Ehab Badawy claims that Egypt has "crossed the democratic rubicon" in the recent presidential election ( Letters, 3 June ).
(13) iPad Great Little War Game 2 (£1.99) Developer Rubicon Development has won a wide following with its little and big war games.
(14) Palmer said Australia’s health system was much more efficient than the one in the US, and the PUP senators were united in their opposition to any Medicare co-payment on the basis it “crosses the Rubicon” on access to free healthcare.
(15) We will take deep breaths and cross the Rubicon with you, or at least the Firth of Forth.
(16) It may be that [the government has] crossed a Rubicon and decided that [mass] data-gathering exercises are something [it] should try out – but you can't have it under the existing regime."
(17) Diluted soil samples (Rubicon fine sand, Entic Haplorthods [pH 5.9]) were plated on soil extract-glucose agar containing radioactive 65Zn.
(18) We’ve made it into the final and crossed the Rubicon.
(19) He was not, he said, willing to pass that Rubicon .
(20) What caught the headlines was Cameron's call for an in-out referendum on renegotiated terms – apparently a Rubicon.