• More specifically, it means we should begin asking questions like: Are we making progress towards the goal?

    FORBES: It's Time For Your First Quarter Checkup

  • The market needs to be directly harnessed towards the goal of stabilising population growth at a sustainable level.

    ECONOMIST: On Phoenix, Claus Schenk von Stauffenberg, global population growth | The

  • Systems for measuring customer delight will need to be put in place so that managers have continuous information on progress towards the goal.

    FORBES: Bold Innovation In A Conventional Setting: Crowdsourcing at SWIFT

  • When Jermain Defoe came on he went towards the goal and for the first time the Croatia defenders had some thinking to do.

    BBC: pundits on England

  • Cole conjured another chance, meeting Julien Faubert's cross in the air and firing the ball towards the goal, only for it to clip over the bar.

    BBC: Fulham 0-1 West Ham

  • Even America is thinking again: in 20-odd states that require utilities to generate a proportion of their power from renewable sources, waste-to-energy plants count towards the goal.

    ECONOMIST: The waste business smells of money

  • Implementing this agenda and creating a market in the poorest countries for life-saving commodities is vital if we are going to accelerate progress towards the goal of ending preventable child and maternal deaths.

    FORBES: Connect

  • Rejigged, but not revived, and almost immediately Liverpool suffered another scare when Marcelo Moreno blocked Carragher's clearance and with the ball looping towards the goal Kyrgiakos had to head away from under the bar.

    BBC: Wigan 1-0 Liverpool

  • As we move into 2013, the NTSB will continue to work with Federal agencies like ONDCP and continue advocating for measures that will push us towards the goal of zero highway deaths due to substance-impaired driving.

    WHITEHOUSE: Drunk and Drugged Driving: Not an Acceptable Part of Life

  • Hahnemann gave Wolves fans a scare shortly afterwards when he allowed a long-range shot from Evatt to slip through his fingers, but the goalkeeper recovered in time to collect the ball as it trickled towards the goal.

    BBC: Blackpool 2-1 Wolves

  • "If we pull all the levers, change teacher training... get schools that have language potential to take over under-performing schools, and we move the curriculum review in the right direction, then we can move towards the goal, " he said.

    BBC: Teach foreign languages from age five, says Gove

  • Associate Professor Gregg Suaning, of the Graduate School of Biomedical Engineering and a project leader in the national bionic eye consortium, Bionic Vision Australia (BVA), said the new, 98-channel microchip, now undergoing preliminary lab testing, was a major step towards the goal of a functional bionic eye.

    ENGADGET: Bionic eye closer to human trials with invention of implantable microchip

  • Rooney outmuscled Ifil as the ball bounced back towards the Aberdeen goal but, with the goal at his mercy, the striker contrived to blast the ball wide of the near post when a shot across the bows of Howard seemed the better option.

    BBC: Inverness players celebrating

  • One such occasion was the 14th minute when Ronan Sexton cut in towards the Tyrone goal only for him to be bottled up by the defence.

    BBC: Clones thriller ends in draw

  • Rudi Skacel gave Hearts a 32nd-minute lead, dipping a volley towards the Accies goal from 18 yards out.

    BBC: Sport - Football - Hearts 2-0 Hamilton

  • Such self-awareness would represent a step towards the ultimate goal of thinking robots.

    BBC: Robot learns to recognise itself in mirror

  • But the numbers won't, so Britain will still have three different deregulatory outfits, all of them working towards the same goal.

    ECONOMIST: New plans to cut red tape address only part of the problem

  • "Our communities have had a huge overlap over the years, and ultimately were all driving towards the same goal, " Mr. Nager says.

    WSJ: Startup America's New Partnership

  • Okada's men aimed two long-distance strikes towards the Paraguay goal in the opening minutes but the tie soon deteriorated into a scrappy, edgy contest.

    BBC: Paraguay 0-0 Japan (5-3 pens)

  • Samuel flighted in a 68th minute cross that Myrie-Williams awkwardly sent towards the Celtic goal, but Forster was up to the challenge and cleared the danger.

    BBC: Emilio Izaguirre

  • Still, at last, the government may be really on the way towards its goal: the eradication of all 40, 000 hectares of coca over the next four years.

    ECONOMIST: Bolivia

  • Vassell then broke towards the City goal in a two-on-two attack but he failed to find strike partner Juan Pablo Angel, making his first appearance of the season.

    BBC: Vassell sinks City

  • Andrius Velicka, back in the Rangers first-team for the injured Kenny Miller, belted over from a promising position as the visitors struggled to make meaningful in-roads towards the Hibs goal.

    BBC: Hibernian 1-1 Rangers

  • Boyd thundered a shot towards the Hibs goal early in the second half, with Stack saving well, and Miller's header from Steven Smith's free-kick clipped the top of the crossbar.

    BBC: Kris Boyd scores for Rangers

  • Although not an overly physical player, the 6ft, 13st 7lb defender from Williams Lake, British Columbia will still add size to the blueline when he's not leading the charge towards the opposition goal.

    BBC: Giants snap up blueliner

  • On 19 minutes Bellamy played a one-two with Gareth Bale and hared away towards the Polish goal, only for the covering Michal Zewlakow to clear the danger as Bellamy chipped over onrushing keeper Lukasz Fabianski.

    BBC: Wales 0-1 Poland

  • But he will now be expected to spend considerable time in the region as the Bush administration attempts to secure progress towards the ultimate goal of separate Israeli and Palestinian states living side by side in peace.

    BBC: NEWS | Middle East | Bush's new man in the Mid-East

  • This kind of pressure helps both the critical friends of business, like Ceres and the sustainability leaders, like the WBCSD membership, to travel as far and as fast as we can towards the shared goal of sustainability.

    ECONOMIST: The Opposition's closing statement

  • As half-time approached, Michael Stewart's mis-hit shot from 30 yards was re-directed towards the Celtic goal by the unmarked Paul Mulrooney - who may have thought he was offside - and the ball flashed just wide of the target.

    BBC: Glenn Lovvens scores Celtic's opener

  • But what we're not going to do is give a daily or hourly assessment of whether or not progress is being made, or what specific items are being discussed, because we don't think that's fruitful or helpful towards achieving the goal that we think we all share, which is reaching a compromise that Congress can pass and the President can sign into law.

    WHITEHOUSE: Press Briefing by Press Secretary Jay Carney,

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