Sentence examples for the objective of destroying from inspiring English sources

Neither had succeeded in the objective of destroying the other fleet and making the seas safe for their merchant shipping.

"The totalitarian state doesn't have the objective of destroying artists but of making them submit to its influence," he says.

With the objective of destroying the Bulgarian Army, the French and British launched a new offensive in April 1917, without any significant success.

The decision was taken to invade the Crimea itself, with the objective of destroying or capturing the Russian naval base at Sevastopol.

The 9th Parachute Battalion, part of the 3rd Parachute Brigade attached to 6th Airborne Division, was given the objective of destroying the battery.

The St Nazaire raid had the objective of destroying the Normandie dry dock, which would prevent its use by any large German warship if that had been damaged or in need of repair.

Mr Uzumcu is equally bullish about meeting the overarching objective of destroying the entire Syrian chemical arsenal by the end of next June.

Troops of the 82nd Airborne began arriving around 02 30, with the primary objective of destroying two additional bridges over the Douve and capturing intact two bridges over the Merderet.

The airborne troops had achieved their initial objective of destroying or disabling the artillery pieces that the fort could have used to bombard the captured bridges, but they still faced a number of small cupolas and emplacements that had to be disabled.

The counteroffensive was called Operation Ka (Ka comes from the first syllable for Guadalcanal as pronounced in Japanese) with the naval forces having an additional objective of destroying Allied warship forces in the South Pacific area, specifically the U.S. carriers.

Still, what is remarkable just two months into this war is how close the Bush administration has come to its objective of destroying Al Qaeda's sanctuary, how unrestrained the executive power of the president has suddenly become at a time when no war has been officially declared -- and how murky the way forward in this war remains.