The phrase "actions were designed to" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when describing the purpose or intention behind specific actions taken in a particular context.
Example: "The actions were designed to improve team collaboration and enhance productivity."
Alternatives: "actions were intended to" or "actions were aimed at".
Such actions were designed to bolster profit.
All these actions were designed to undercut the continuing resistance; more important, they were aimed at the minds of the uneasy civilian population.
Mr. Sharon's actions were designed to protect his plan to pull Israeli settlements out of Gaza, which he cannot do politically under fire.
Comcast said Thursday that the league's recent actions were designed to "wrongfully coerce Comcast into abandoning its bargained-for-tiering right".
Administration officials have said the president's actions were designed to be "legally unassailable," which activists said led the White House to make some tough choices.
They also used the climate change defence – that their actions were designed to prevent immediate harm to human life and property from climate change – and were acquitted.
These carefully targeted actions are designed to disrupt the use of Afghanistan as a terrorist base of operations and to attack the military capability of the Taliban regime.
Chief executive Mark Clare said: "These early actions are designed to integrate the businesses as soon as possible delivering cost reductions, a strong management team and improved operational performance".
"These carefully targeted actions are designed to disrupt the use of Afghanistan as a terrorist base of operations and to attack the military capability of the Taliban regime," Mr. Bush said.
In ethics, ends are the natural or consciously determined goals of moral actions; they are moral absolutes, such as happiness or "the good," that human actions are designed to bring about.
The US says its latest actions are designed to complement existing sanctions against these government entities that were introduced previously in response to nuclear proliferation and "illicit financial activity", and not a sign that it believes these were specifically the agencies or individuals directly involved in the latest hack.
