The phrase "a central objective was" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing the main goal or purpose of a project, study, or initiative.
Example: "In our research, a central objective was to understand the impact of climate change on local ecosystems."
Alternatives: "a primary goal was" or "a key aim was".
Thus, to widen the applicability of STEM to more beam-sensitive inorganic materials, a central objective is to develop effective denoising methods that increase the single-shot image quality.
Finally, although a central objective is the publication of original research on labor market policy issues, we will also emphasize publishing review papers that synthesize existing research to draw conclusions on important policy issues or to suggest new frameworks for thinking about labor policy issues.
A central objective is to continually repeat this monitoring process to determine which agents change in abundance over time, find undiscovered agents already present, and detect new viruses when they appear.
With all these elements, a full proposal was submitted outlining a 4-year program of work whose central objective was implementing a research-based, 2-year graduate program, named 'the MSc Program in Infectious and Zoonotic Diseases' (MEIZ, for its Spanish abbreviation).
Sources close to Clegg stressed that the Lib Dems' central objective was now to stop the Tories winning an outright majority at the next election – and for them to have an option to team up with Labour.
Our central objective was to find out whether, or under what circumstances, they would embrace the idea of biodigestion.
Our central objective was to identify the main influencing factors on organic P in forest soils and to test its usefulness as a predictor of the foliar P content of beech.
Our central objective was to compare miRNA expression in colon tumors that arise due to chronic inflammation and germ line mutations in model systems.
