The phrase "a primary target was" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing objectives or goals in various contexts, such as military, business, or research.
Example: "In the recent operation, a primary target was identified to ensure the success of the mission."
Alternatives: "a main objective was" or "a key target was".
A primary target was the Massey Energy Company, which owned the mines around Marfork Hollow and other Appalachian communities.
A primary target was the Vinnell Arabia compound, home to 500 employees of the Vinnell Corporation, of Fairfax, Va., a subsidiary of the Northrop Grumman Corporation, which trains members of the Saudi National Guard.
A primary target is Salah Abdeslam, a 26-year-old French national who is the subject of a manhunt across Europe.
A primary target is expected to be pension plans: United is supposed to contribute about $4.1 billion to them over the next few years.
A primary target is likely to be Shell, despite the fact that the oil giant recently sought injunctions against each Greenpeace office around the world.
Since the principal action of LTB4 is chemotaxis with a primary target being leukocytes, one would on this basis expect the oral cavity of healthy subjects to be overwhelmed with PNMs.
The sequence of a "primary target" is at least 95% identical with the clone insert sequence for at least 100 nucleotides (Fievet et al. 2013); for "secondary targets" the definition is more than 80% identity for greater than 200 nucleotides (Kamath and Ahringer 2003).
[The troops opened fire and killed all four, the army said, adding that soldiers found a saw and wire-cutting equipment, indicating the Palestinians were planning to infiltrate a Jewish settlement.] According to Israeli accounts of the helicopter raid, the primary target was a leader of Al Aksa Martyrs Brigades, a radical wing of Yasir Arafat's Fatah movement.
We used politics as a weapon, and the primary target was politics".
The primary target was a police chief, Abdul Raziq, the most influential man in the south.
Their primary target was a Republican Guard division outside Baghdad that stood in the way of American ground troops.
