Sentence examples for primarily to destroy from inspiring English sources

Have no doubt: we punched a fist into the Arab/Muslim world after 9/11, partly to send a message of deterrence, but primarily to destroy two tyrannical regimes — the Taliban and the Baathists — and to work with Afghans and Iraqis to build a different kind of politics.

More recently, Timothy McVeigh used a bomb primarily composed of fertilizer to destroy Oklahoma City's Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in 1995.

North Vietnam was primarily an agricultural country with few industries to destroy.

Although there was nothing in the Court's opinion on it, medical experts say that the four devices at issue primarily operate to prevent conception, and not to destroy a fertilized egg.

ISIS and other groups are on social media primarily because we haven't found a way to destroy the allure of a "stack of decapitated heads".

In the raid, the Air Force primarily used deep-penetrating munitions because of their ability to destroy an underground bunker.

And when the Republicans meet at their convention in St . Paulnext week, ostensibly to officially nominate John McCain but primarily to mount concerted, methodical and relentless attacks designed to destroy the public image of Barack Obama, they won't be so easily distracted.

Mikawa's decision to withdraw under cover of night rather than attempt to destroy the Allied invasion transports was primarily founded on the high risk of Allied carrier strikes against his fleet upon daybreak.

Extreme circumstances necessitate the curtailment of some freedoms, primarily to those who make no secret of their aim to destroy Israel as a Jewish state.

From the perspective of Marxism, it concerns primarily the tension between the historical mission of the working class (to destroy capitalism and realize the socialist revolution) and its understanding thereof.

Most seriously, Stopford failed to destroy supplies that were vitally useful to the Americans, primarily gunpowder, but also winter provisions.