The phrase "a speech aimed at" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when describing the target audience or purpose of a speech.
Example: "The politician delivered a speech aimed at rallying support for the new policy."
Alternatives: "a speech directed towards" or "a speech focused on".
Yet, curiously, this was more of a speech aimed at actual Liberal Democrat members than I can remember.
There was also an obvious irony in their opposition both to the draft and to black enlistment in the Union Army. "You say you will not fight to free negroes," Lincoln wrote in a speech aimed at the Copperheads.
The same week that a dozen defiant senators threatened to filibuster any new gun control legislation, Paul ventured across Washington to historically black Howard University and gave a speech aimed at outreach and bridge building.
BERLIN — Defying calls for his resignation, Foreign Minister Guido Westerwelle went on the offensive Thursday in a speech aimed at quashing dissent while warning of a drift leftward if supporters failed to rally around his Free Democrats party.
"I'm the prime minister that's supposed to be the great reader of public opinion," he said at the party's annual convention in this English Channel resort in a speech aimed at restoring his battered reputation.
Mr Cheney mentioned both Pearl and Paul M Johnson Jr, an American citizen beheaded by militants in Saudi Arabia in June, in a speech aimed at discrediting rival presidential candidate Mr Kerry views on the "war on terror".
CAIRO — President Bashar al-Assad of Syria addressed his nation on Saturday in a televised speech aimed at appeasing a two-month-old protest movement that has posed an unprecedented challenge to his family's four decades of rule, according to human rights groups.
In a robust speech aimed at deflecting donor criticism, Mali's prime minister, Moussa Mara, called for more transparency from the country's partners.
Malcolm Turnbull has ruled out dramatically ramping up Australia's military role in the Middle East and reinforced his plea for community unity at home in a security speech aimed at reassuring people about efforts to prevent terrorism.
At times, Obama's penultimate State of the Union address sounded like a valedictory speech aimed at defending his record rather than proposing legislation that the White House knows it has little chance of passing through the Republican-controlled Congress.
"Even if the improving economic news eventually leads to an improvement in the fiscal outlook, the job will not be done," he will say in a major speech aimed at setting the parameters of the 2015 election.
