Sentence examples for objective was not from inspiring English sources

"The objective was not to kill 69 people at Utøya.

"The objective was not the quarterfinal," he said.

Although this objective was not attained, and several naval disasters ensued, trade with Russia was facilitated.

"As a freshman, our objective was not to try to get in the front all the time," Mr. Obama said.

"My objective was not to become a theater director, but simply to put on this play," he explained.

"Our objective was not to seek a quick resolution but a correct one," he said in the statement.

The real objective was not a more equitable distribution of land; it was the destruction of the traditional Vietnamese rural society.

We were the junior partner in both Afghanistan and Iraq, so the UK's national objective was not that relevant, he says.

"We emphasized in every meeting that our objective was not to kill the mosquito, but to dry the quicksand," he said at a news conference at the airport.

'My prime objective was not to cause them any pain.' The bits of himself he denied and bottled up to this end are now his fiction's fuel, he believes.

He said the closing of the detention center at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, which once seemed to be an early top objective, was not likely to happen during the first 100 days of his administration.