11.   And with the work Republicans have ahead of them this election year, that is the more important political objective.

12.   Clinton tried to leverage the enormous reach of the presidency to counter bad press from the Lewinsky matter and to push his political objectives.

13.   Even after achieving its political objective, though, China has continued to threaten conference participants.

14.   Frank said many conservatives regard the judiciary as an obstacle to their political objectives of injecting more religion into the public sphere and limiting indecent speech.

15.   From the beginning, the United States and it allies laid out political objectives that military commanders warned would be difficult to achieve by bombing alone.

16.   It has not accomplished its political objectives.

17.   Recently, after far too slow a start, progress has been made on the political objectives of the Dayton agreement.

18.   Second, NATO has to figure out what its political objective is.

19.   Several parents said they were pleased that local schools had not latched onto the Fund for Afghan Children because it had an obvious political objective.

20.   The second error, he said, was to require consideration of the political objectives and of whether the criminal acts were proportionate to them.