The phrase "serving the same end" is correct and can be used in written English.
It means that something is being done or used for the same purpose or goal as something else. You can use it when comparing two different actions, methods, or objects that ultimately have the same result or purpose. For example: - Both jogging and swimming are exercises, but they serve the same end of improving overall health. - The two political parties may have different approaches, but they are both serving the same end of promoting economic growth. - Although our strategies may differ, we are all working towards serving the same end goal of customer satisfaction.
Their descriptions of the climate served the same end.
And in any case, says Mr Arad, the split between pragmatists like Mr Sharon, for whom settlements are chiefly a means to Israel's security (and can be sacrificed if it seems to serve the same end), and Greater Israel ideologues, for whom they had become essential to the Jewish state, had been widening for years.
Cortana on desktop probably help to serve the same end, seeing as Windows is still by far the most popular desktop computing platform.
Nevertheless, national guarantees of price stability need to be supplemented by international measures to serve the same end.
Cultural cleansing and ecological cleansing are driven by the same impulses, in some cases to serve the same ends.
Although completely voluntary confessions may, in many cases, advance the cause of justice and rehabilitation, coerced confessions, by their nature, cannot serve the same ends.
But the funerals all serve the same ends — as festive fund-raisers for bereaved families and as midnight reunions for Ghanaian nurses, students, scientists and cabdrivers looking to dance off the grind of immigrant life in New York.
In other words, instead of trying to make image and music serve the same ends, you play one against the other, letting the disparity become an emotional experience in itself.
Clever, because lots of other cities could serve the same ends, but only Atlanta's Hartsfield-Jackson is at present a rival to O'Hare.O'Hare invented parallel take-off and landing, allowing aircraft to come in two by two.
In an interview that accompanies the "Koyaanisqatsi" DVD, Glass provides his own eloquent definition of the film-music art: he calls it "observing accurately the distance between the image and the music". In other words, instead of trying to make image and music serve the same ends, you play one against the other, letting the disparity become an emotional experience in itself.
