Sentence:  Progress is impeded by psychological inhibitions to effective action among those in power and by a failure on their part to understand how local resources , human and material , can be mobilized to achieve the national <WSD>goals</WSD> of modernization already symbolically accepted . 
Meaning of the word marked with <WSD> tags:  the state of affairs that a plan is intended to achieve and that (when achieved) terminates behavior intended to achieve it