Sentence examples for chiefly aiming from inspiring English sources

But the City, which the chancellor was chiefly aiming to please, didn't mind: shares soared and long-term interest rates fell.

More interestingly, Mr Bush is also trying to broaden the definition of the religious right from that southern white Protestant base into something rather more ecumenical.The people he is chiefly aiming at are Roman Catholics, the biggest single religious group in the country and the most ripe for picking.

They are chiefly aimed at domestic consumption.

North Korea's about-turn is chiefly aimed at extracting more aid and trade from Japan.

North Korea's about-turn is chiefly aimed at weaning more aid and trade from Japan.

In a few cases regulation, chiefly aimed at transparency, looks justified.

A fiscal reform that took effect on January 1st introduces a number of new taxes that are chiefly aimed at the rich but end up clobbering the poor.

The present wave of Islamic discontent is chiefly aimed at corrupt politicians who have run out of new ideas, but it also has a religious target.

But Portugal Telecom's board told investors this month that the government could not legally block the bid for Vivo using its golden share 500 shares with special voting rights, chiefly aimed at preventing a hostile takeover of the whole company.

Joshua Aizenman and Reuven Glick, in a note for the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco, point out that with such large sums to invest the funds should chiefly aim to keep pace with an index, rather than to invest strategically.

And in Middlemarch, set in the 1830s, George Eliot was familiar enough with the practice to subject Mr Brooke to the humiliating fate of a substantial egging during an election speech: "Here an unpleasant egg broke on Mr Brooke's shoulder… then came a hail of eggs, chiefly aimed at the image, but occasionally hitting the original, as if by chance".