Sentence examples for aiming mainly from inspiring English sources

But it would be a mistake to see Ms. Huong's most recent book, translated by Nina McPherson and Phan Huy Duong, as aiming mainly to make a political statement.

Rejecting calls for a nonpartisan reform of the redistricting process, the pols picked their voters and drew their maps based on maximum self-interest, aiming mainly to protect incumbents.

The Conservatives' gamble that a majority is possible was reflected in the decision to have Mr. Cameron spend one of his last campaigning days in Cornwall and in Wales, where the Conservatives are aiming mainly at Labour-held seats.

IRMA was developed aiming mainly at the treatment of irrigation networks – by using the Clément demand model and is now used to manage more than 6000 km of piped networks.

As Washington slouches toward the next battle in its three-year budget war, both parties have abandoned the quest for a "grand bargain". Instead, with a shutdown set to occur in 11 days unless a deal is reached, lawmakers are aiming mainly just to keep the lights on and not miss a payment on the bills.

Following Viktor Yanukovich's victory in 2010 in the presidential election, which was widely recognized as meeting international standards, Ukraine adopted an ambitious reform agenda, aiming mainly at boosting economic growth, alleviating the effects of the financial crisis and setting the country on a course toward deeper and closer ties with the E.U.

The provision was originally aimed mainly at Southern states.

Americans have supported the growth of many programs aimed mainly at the poor.

AOL Time Warner started Walk Worthy Press, a line of religious books aimed mainly at black readers.

Popular theatre, suggests John Bennett, is aimed mainly at people who don't go to the theatre.

That hardly mattered to the protesters, whose outpourings were aimed mainly at news media, anyway.