Sentence examples for aimed but from inspiring English sources

(A Taser was also aimed, but not discharged, at a child of 13).

Thus, many guns are brandished and aimed, but nobody is actually shot.

Embargoes, they say, not only isolate the nations at which they are aimed but also hurt American business.

Ghonim's memoir is a welcome and cleareyed addition to a growing list of volumes that have aimed (but often failed) to meaningfully analyze social media's impact.

I can't speak for the kids at whom it is aimed, but as an adult I'd rather stay in and watch a CBBC Chuckle Brothers marathon.

Neither America nor Russia wants to be blackmailed by countries like North Korea threatening to unleash a handful of poorly aimed but highly destructive nuclear missiles.

A necessary condition of being able reliably to hit the target is being able to aim; but aiming and hitting are different.

Such a synthetic consilience is an ideal towards which to aim, but one which should be subject to constant challenge.

Laser sight can improve your aiming, but the enemy will know you are there before you see them.

Friday's program was pedestrian, but aimed to please.

"Our message is one, but aimed at all.