Sentence examples for avowed target from inspiring English sources

But, arguably the most troubling legacy is that the avowed target of the Afghan campaign — jihadism — has simply dissipated to re-form elsewhere, in Somalia, Yemen, the desert hide-outs of North Africa and the newest killing fields of Syria.

But the bombings last Friday drove a wedge between Britain and its European allies and raised protests in the British Parliament that a decade of sanctions against Iraq had punished the Iraqi people, rather than their avowed target, the government of Saddam Hussein.

Whose avowed target then and now was the so-called Ruling Party and the deep state.

The avowed aim is to increase competition and encourage entrepreneurship.

That is why the Fed's avowed aim has been to slow the economy.

Their avowed aim is to keep it there permanently.

The National Security Strategy of 2002, signed by President George W. Bush one year after the Sept. 11 attacks, stated that "traditional concepts of deterrence will not work against a terrorist enemy whose avowed tactics are wanton destruction and the targeting of innocents".

The 2002 National Security Strategy, signed by the president one year after the Sept. 11 attacks, stated flatly that "traditional concepts of deterrence will not work against a terrorist enemy whose avowed tactics are wanton destruction and the targeting of innocents".

"Traditional concepts of deterrence," the Bush authors write, "will not work against a terrorist enemy whose avowed tactics are wanton destruction and the targeting of innocents; whose so-called soldiers seek martyrdom in death and whose most potent protection is statelessness".

Avital Leibovich, avowed that "anything affiliated with Hamas is a legitimate target".

But no one yet expects commercial sanctions of the kind that would hurt Iranian consumers or manufacturers.Citing America's avowed reluctance to alienate ordinary Iranians, Ms Rice has ruled out targeting Iran's imports of refined oil products.