The phrase "achieve towards" is not correct and is not commonly used in written English.
It is generally not appropriate because "achieve" does not typically pair with "towards" in standard usage.
Example: "We aim to achieve our goals this quarter."
Alternatives: "strive for" or "work towards".
He would not be drawn on the chain's long-term future but pointed to the revised targets set for the chain: that losses "reduce sharply" this year and break-even be achieved towards the end of the 2012/13 financial year.
The swing to win this seat is half the swing we were achieving towards the end of the last parliament, taking seats from Labour in other parts of the country.
However, with more support to the sector, much more could be achieved towards achieving the government's housing completion targets".
In the last five years, considerable progress has been achieved towards commercialization of fermentative production of SA.
In this review, we have exclusively discussed the recent advances that have been achieved towards the treatment of homocystinuria.
In the computational quantum chemistry community, more progress has been achieved towards the development of repositories using standard data representations to enable collaborative networks.
In recent years, impressive steps forward have been achieved towards biocatalytic ketone reduction as a green and useful access to enantiopure alcohols.
On balance, progress was, in part, achieved towards these ends in our laboratories.
Further elongation using this disaccharide donor was achieved towards either even- or odd-numbered oligosaccharides by activation of the phenylthioglycoside donor unit in 6 by N-iodosuccinimide (NIS) for reaction with an appropriate acceptor saccharide.
Fourth, remarkable progress has been achieved towards malaria elimination in a number of countries over the past years.
