The phrase "are merely aimed at" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to indicate that something is focused on a specific goal or purpose, often implying that it is not more than that.
Example: "The new policies are merely aimed at improving employee satisfaction without addressing the underlying issues."
Alternatives: "are simply intended to" or "are only focused on".
"What we do is merely aimed at protecting our nation from the danger of drugs," Prasetyo told reporters on Thursday.
Reports "fell off the trees like apples", and were merely aimed at getting a few paragraphs in the newspapers.
To avoid serious repercussions for future engineering labor, the focus of CAD education needs to be raised from the teaching of knowledge that is merely aimed at operating a system, to the development of basic strategic knowledge.
Foreign Minister Nabil Fahmy appeared keen to swat away any suggestion that relations with the United States were cooling, insisting that today's visit was merely aimed at boosting ties with Moscow and would not jeopardise existing relations.
Today's [share price] reaction suggests concern among Smurfit holders (sitting on still handsome 20% profits versus 2018's average) that IP's new 15% higher cash component is merely aimed at offsetting the now lower valued share component, and that the meagre 3% boost to the aggregate offer means it is unprepared to go much if any higher.
Sinclair executives have expressed befuddlement about the backlash, emphasizing in public statements and memos to staff that the campaign was merely aimed at outrageous unsubstantiated claims that have circulated on social media, such as the "Pizzagate" conspiracy theory or bogus reports about the pope endorsing Trump.
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Some argue that it is merely aimed at pacifying an angry Israeli public who want quick answers or acts of revenge.
But many experts have panned the report saying it does nothing to address the imminent threat posed by climate change and is merely aimed at preventing the reef being listed as endangered on UNESCO's world heritage list.
Yet the first and second arguments of the Exposition are not merely opportunities to contend with empiricist views like those of Locke; nor are the third and fourth arguments merely aimed at challenging rationalist views like those of Leibniz.
