The phrase "achieved their purpose" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to indicate that a goal or objective has been successfully met or fulfilled.
Example: "After months of hard work, the team finally achieved their purpose of launching the new product on time."
Alternatives: "fulfilled their goal" or "met their objective".
Positive sketches of Celestin achieved their purpose.
Fresh peace negotiations, directed toward the cession of the duchies to Austria and Prussia jointly, achieved their purpose in the Treaty of Vienna of October 30, 1864.
Despite this, to date, the Pentagon's semanticists have achieved their purpose, and many people think that torture by music is little more than a rather irritating enforced encounter with someone else's iPod.
In a letter to the commission on Thursday, Garret Graves, director of the Louisiana Office of Coastal Activities and leader of the sand berm project, insisted that the berms had achieved their purpose.
"The U.S. and Manila should try to assess what exactly is the purpose of the Americans in Mindanao and whether they have achieved their purpose," said Abhoud Syed Lingga, executive director of the Institute of Bangsamoro Studies, a research organization for Filipino Muslims based in Cotabato City.
The report goes on to note that the schools never achieved their purpose — "the residential school system failed as an education system...most students left residential schools unprepared to succeed in the market economy or to pursue more traditional activities such as hunting and fishing," it concludes.
In every Arab land but Palestine, the nationalists achieved their purposes — the defeat and departure of imperialist rulers, and the establishment of national sovereignty under national leaders.
Kaye noticed that Ork wasn't a stereotypical band manager, but was more interested in helping the band achieve their purpose more than profits.
They were driven on, documents and interviews reveal, by indications that the shear ram's blades had come within a few maddening inches of achieving their purpose.
Mr Yanagisawa is against stockmarket intervention, arguing that not only do such schemes rarely achieve their purpose, but they could also drive away foreign investors.
Commission officials said Mr. Prodi was willing to speak out because it was clear that the sanctions had failed to achieve their purpose and were fueling sentiment against the union in several countries.
