The immediate objective, therefore, was to get out of the trap.

Since the door was his immediate objective, he headed for it rapidly.

His immediate objectives are to ease the sanctions and, of course, to stay in power.

The immediate objective, however, was to get Villiers to stop.

At least that's the immediate objective for both men in the scheduled 15-round bout.

"I do not believe that ought to be the immediate objective.

But Bing does have an immediate objective in the public sector.

The next was to effect the relief of Berwick town, their immediate objective.

If he made it his immediate objective, he would lose a greater opportunity.

"Their immediate objective is similar and it is natural for us to work closely together."

The immediate objective of the interviewing officer should be to establish a cooperative relationship.

His fear is that his team will lose sight of its immediate objectives.

Eventually they would be transported on for evacuation, to the airport, which was of course China's immediate objective.

Their immediate objective was a research proposal to submit to foreign foundations for funding.

The Nationalist Chinese officers could study our immediate objective but nothing else.

"I'd say the immediate objective was to keep you from lying down in Mongolia.

But at least he had an immediate objective.

The immediate objective of Opportunity was to publish dependable data concerning black life and race relations.

Therefore, The Shadow's agent decided to make that task his immediate objective.

Their immediate objective was a strongly fortified position known as 'the L-shaped building'.

The first is the immediate objective to end the violence, murders and especially torture happening in Tibet.

This was the last place we examined in detail, since what we found there gave us a fresh immediate objective.

The Leicesters thought their immediate objective was the city of Lens.

By midnight, the landing had attained the immediate objectives.

An immediate objective is to help Bradley improve his balance with better positioning of his feet.