The phrase "achieve at all" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to emphasize the possibility or likelihood of achieving something, often in a negative context.
Example: "I didn't think I would achieve at all in my attempts to learn the new software."
Alternatives: "succeed in any way" or "accomplish anything".
"We are not thinking about how much profit Alibaba could achieve at all," Mr. Yan said.
@billgifford, via Twitter RAJAT GUPTA'S LUST FOR ZEROS Having been a student at the Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi, at the same time as Rajat Gupta, I believe he was driven, like many of us, to succeed and, perhaps like a much smaller group, to achieve at all costs.
When you stop to think about the meaning of these words, you realize that being true to yourself – which is how I define authenticity – is not actually that easy to achieve at all.
They are the high-flying executives that sometimes have a reputation for being willing to achieve at all and any cost to themselves and those around them, resulting in countless broken relationships (professional and personal) and, often, burnout.
A simulator by any other name, each version of Gotham can be delved into as a spectator, holding a sense of satisfaction and entertainment that most games struggle to achieve at all.
Mutants in genes with no visible phenotype required PCR screening for their identification; therefore, high mutagenesis rates are important, which might be difficult to achieve at all positions in the fly genome (Kondo and Ueda 2013; Yu et al. 2013, 2014; Gokcezade et al. 2014; Port et al. 2014).
Instead, I'm observing--as a mother, and as a filmmaker whose focus is on issues of education and childhood--that for too many of us, back-to-school comes with a high price: an achieve-at-all-costs educational culture that drives too many kids to sickness and sadness.
In other words, the United States in 1876 was a nation celebrating the achievement of its Manifest Destiny yet wondering whether that destiny had been achieved at all, and if so, at what price.
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