Sentence examples for the purpose of the attack from inspiring English sources

The purpose of the attack was to "snuff out the voice of Sliwa," he said.

That was the purpose of the attack launched on Verdun on Feb.

It said then that the purpose of the attack was to highlight vulnerabilities in the network.

Mr. Ehsan said the purpose of the attack on Wednesday was to "demonstrate that South Waziristan is not under army control".

The purpose of the attack, the report speculated, was to increase American casualties so militants could claim that they had "fought the occupiers and forced them to withdraw".

"It is all in the details, but I left the meeting feeling better than I felt before about what happens the day after and that the purpose of the attack is going to be a little more robust than I thought," Mr. Graham said in an interview.

"The purpose of the attacks appears to be industrial espionage, collecting intellectual property for competitive advantage," said the report.

The purpose of the attacks is fairly narrow: to drive down Mrs. Clinton's support among Jewish voters.

As a matter of fact, if the purpose of the attacks was to spread terror, then it hasn't panned out.

"It is our assessment," the official told reporters at a briefing here, "that the purpose of the attacks in the first couple of days would not just be destruction and not just to send a signal, but it would be a test to see how the new government reacts.

In London, a senior British defense official, echoing Pentagon planners, said the purpose of the attacks so far on Afghanistan was to condition the environment "so that there is less risk of damage to our own people, our own aircraft" in future deployments.