Sentence examples for action targeted at from inspiring English sources

General Schwartz said today's bombing "clearly was an action targeted at innocents".

The president's case for war emphasizes the potential threat from Iraq while minimizing the dangers inherent in military action targeted at a regime change.

But Holman's hypothetical especially alarmed Southern Democrats who had gone to great lengths to obstruct Federal action targeted at ending the Jim Crow system of racial segregation in the American South.

It said the ongoing attacks were a "symbolic action" targeted at corporate website that had withdrawn services from Wikileaks.

Another explanation might be that, in practice, Dutch CBHEPA programs use rather conventional health education principles for action, targeting at-risk groups and using a behaviourist and reductionist approach to health, rather than health promotion principles for action, based on an ecological perspective on health [ 25, 27, 28].

Brazil is one of the most unequal countries in the world and its government requires publicly funded universities to set affirmative action targets at up to 50% of enrolments.

It's thought that 40% of the files, part of an operation called Cointelpro, detailed actions targeted at political groups against which Hoover held a vendetta.

The continuation of RESTRAIL and its subsequent toolbox has been supported by systematic dissemination actions targeted at complementary audiences (i.e. railway safety and security experts, Human Factor specialists, traffic and transportation psychologists, researchers, academics, students).

Strategic actions targeted at these factors are essential in the development of programs that can holistically address all the barriers to the improvement of ocular health.

Without continuing actions targeted at lower socioeconomic groups, however, the inequalities may even become wider, because survival will increase more rapidly in affluent groups (Coleman et al, 2004).

As shown in Figure  1, GPs mentioned that actions targeted at emotions could occur at different moments during the consultation, although it was often considered important to immediately start creating trust at the beginning (grey arrows).