with an eye to
Preposition
Meaning
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.
Synonyms
Examples
It is madness for any country to build its policy with an eye to nuclear war.
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.
My college training was primarily in theatre, with an eye to becoming a director, actor, or producer.
All that we do is done with an eye to something else.
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.
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.