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with an eye to

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with an eye to

(idiomatic) With an intention, goal, or consideration to.
We read the contract with an eye to finding a way out of it.
We read the contract with an eye to its renegotiation.
We read the contract with an eye to how it could be made to look to voters.

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It is madness for any country to build its policy with an eye to nuclear war. Leonid Brezhnev

With me poetry has been not a purpose, but a passion; and the passions should be held in reverence: they must not - they cannot at will be excited, with an eye to the paltry compensations, or the more paltry commendations, of mankind. Edgar Allan Poe

My college training was primarily in theatre, with an eye to becoming a director, actor, or producer. Orson Scott Card

All that we do is done with an eye to something else. Aristotle

All Burney's novels explore the lives of English aristocrats, and satirise their social pretensions and personal foibles, with an eye to larger questions such as the politics of female identity. Source: Internet

At the novel's beginning, Becky Sharp is a bright girl with an eye to improving her lot through marrying up the social scale; though she is thoroughly unsentimental, she is nonetheless portrayed as being a good friend to Amelia. Source: Internet

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