Sentence examples for claimed goal from inspiring English sources

He defends the Iraq war by declaring that the Bush administration's claimed goal of using the invasion to kick-start democratization throughout the Middle East is in the tradition of Woodrow Wilson.

It also agreed to establish a "joint information center" in Baghdad with Iran, Iraq and Syria, with the claimed goal of combatting IS.

Messi has scored just once in a World Cup finals match for Argentina - the sixth in a 6-0 thrashing of Serbia in Germany - while Portugal captain Ronaldo can only claim goals against Iran and North Korea.

Midfielder Johnston celebrated as he claimed the goal but he was denied a rare strike when the referee awarded the goal to the teenage striker.

Ribéry claimed one goal, set up another and tricked Hamburg's hapless defender Heiko Westermann in scoring an own goal.

Juraj Halenar scored a hat-trick, while Blazej Vascak and Martin Mikulic claimed a goal apiece.

Adam Le Fondre, the Reading striker, may have claimed the goal but he appeared sheepish in the extreme and barely celebrated.

A man arrested on kidnapping charges has confessed to killing 19 people in three years and claimed his goal was to kill 100, the police said Thursday.

Woods — who claimed his goal this week was a "W," as opposed to MC-NI (make cut, no injuries) — moved into a tie for the lead.

The publishers and Apple claimed their goal was to increase competition in the e-book market by opening up alternatives to Amazon's Kindle reader.

A home player might have claimed a goal when Chris Wood beat Sergio Rico to a Phil Bardsley cross but slapped his header against an upright.