Sentence examples for aimed at picking from inspiring English sources

"When I first heard about it 20 years ago, I thought it was aimed at picking up what the Soviets had left out of Polish history.

Dr. Levinson said that at first Calico would be "more of an institute certainly than a pharmaceutical company," focusing on basic research aimed at picking apart the biological mechanisms behind aging.

Instead of using their expertise to make money for shareholders, they would develop tests that were needed urgently by medics, but that no one else saw profits in, tests specifically aimed at picking up quickly those diseases that caused most devastation in the bleakest of settings.

IT may be, as Nicholas Lemann suggests in "The Big Test: The Secret History of the American Meritocracy," that the meritocratic system began to unravel when it ceased to be aimed at picking the best people for public service and became largely a matter of deciding how to hand out the goodies.

So it's also possible the Body Labs acquisition is mostly an acquihire for Amazon, aimed at picking up talent and expertise for handling the data it's hoping to gather via its Echo Look device which — notably — contains an on-board depth sensor so could be used to extract 3D data on body form via users' style selfies.

It must be made clear, that voices from the international community are not aimed at picking a political favorite, but rather making sure that the political crisis is resolved in an environment free of violence and threats and coupled with respect for the Iranian people's fundamental rights.

Now I worry that any children watching, and who Atlantis is aimed at, are picking up bad tips.

Choosing your options is aimed at students picking their subjects, and Getting to grips with decisions is designed to help young people work out what they really want.

They came up with what Mr. Hantler described as a multipronged strategy, involving advertising aimed at voters picking judges and continued lobbying of lawmakers.

A final kick by Lopez, aimed at Delany, was picked off by Habana.

Electronic cigarettes are set to be as restricted in San Francisco as all other tobacco products after the city's Board of Supervisors unanimously approved regulations aimed at protecting children from picking up a nicotine habit.