The phrase "approached in order to" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when describing the purpose or intention behind an action, particularly in formal or academic contexts.
Example: "The researchers approached the subject in order to gather more data for their study."
Alternatives: "sought to" or "came to".
I would be very interested to know how many current clean riders they approached in order to find the state of the peloton today.
Farid referred specifically to a story from last year, in which a father in the town of Akrab, near Homs, was said to have murdered his own daughters and then killed himself as a group of Sunni vigilantes approached, in order to prevent them being kidnapped and raped by the mob.
We had no information on the number of people the vendor approached in order to achieve the minimum number of respondents.
Documentation for early censuses in the semi-arid countries considered here gives long and detailed explanations of preparations for collecting data on mobile populations and the different ways this was approached, in order to maximise complete enumeration.
Experts in volleyball (players, trainers/coaches, club representatives) and/or injury prevention (strength and conditioning trainers, physical therapists, sports physicians) were approached in order to formulate clearly the objective of the intervention and specify its target groups.
Above all, this paper discusses how landscape identity has been approached, in order to get an improved understanding of its potential for introducing the landscape concept at multiple levels of governance and how an increased knowledge base might be useful to inform policy making.
But the government in Islamabad appears to have changed its approach in order to reduce tensions with India.
Experienced scientific reviewers understand the need to balance widely different questions and approaches in order to decide which proposals are likely to be the most effective.
To do justice to the nature of ontological concepts, Plato required a mythological approach in order to illuminate the distinction between essences and existence, which resisted conceptualisation.
He emphasized that with most prisoners his interrogators simply tried to use what he called "the direct approach," in order to "build rapport".
