The Nets' underlying goal this preseason was to make it to the regular season healthy.

My underlying goal in this process has been to ensure that Iraq is disarmed and to lessen the likelihood that weapons of mass destruction can be passed to terrorists.

The total irrationality of the mission and its underlying goals, left Modyun with the feeling that, really, what could he say to such madness?

Under this amendment, its underlying goal remained the same as the Hazardous Materials Transportation Act: to protect against the risks to life, property, and the environment during the transportation of hazardous materials.

Our underlying goal is to document and assess the possibilities that charter schools present as vehicles for systemic reform of public education and to move the ideas that work into practice in traditional public schools.

The "underlying goal of the Sugar Shot to Space program is to loft a rocket powered by a 'sugar propellant' into space."

The union of the civil enlightenment and the state of Prussia and its King bespoke their underlying national goals, and the advancement of German language and literature.

The underlying commercial goal of Computer Learning Month is to drum up new customers for software and hardware, of course.

But her underlying goal was far more complex: to trace, and in a sense relive, the traumatic war experiences about which her father always remained mute but that had nonetheless marked and transformed him into the emotionally removed man she knew.

Your underlying goal isn't to get your child out of your house as soon as possible but to build a relationship as two adults that can last a lifetime.