The phrase "achieving an end" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing the process of reaching a specific goal or objective.
Example: "The team's focus on achieving an end has led to significant improvements in productivity."
Alternatives: "reaching a goal" or "attaining an objective."
The post-MDG high-level report included the goal to "Empower Girls and Women and Achieve Gender Equality" (to be measured by achieving an end to child marriage).
The basic conditions imposed on Hamas by the United States and the Quartet to recognize Israel, renounce violence and accept past agreements are essential to achieving an end to the conflict.
Unless driven by need to conceive the means of achieving an end, we imagine what we do only because in the course of experience we sense accidental or natural signs that suggest particular ideas to us.
Achieving an end to nuclear testing has been a goal pursued since Dwight Eisenhower was president.
They know, as I do, that achieving an end to veteran homelessness nationwide will require more than thanking veterans for their service, waving flags in their honor and paying lip service to their sacrifice.
So Obama probably won't offer a specific new plan for reviving the peace talks, after all -- despite the fact that only the power of American mediation is capable of achieving an end to a dispute that dangerously continues to radicalize and polarize the Middle East.
These companies are seeking and achieving an end-to-end engagement with their brand, both inside and outside the organization.
In the event that Congress still persisted in doing what it has done in the past - ignoring the problem and doing nothing - this Board's proposals would be implemented automatically, achieving an end-run around the special interest lobbies.
2. A person should be treated as an end and not the means to achieve an end.
Surely it's not the means used to achieve an end, but the end itself that matters.
