Inquisitive extraterrestrials could have aimed their antennas at Earth for four-and-a-half billion years without detecting any signals.
"I may not have aimed at them".
Wolf views the debt ceiling as the legislative equivalent of a nuclear bomb the U.S. has aimed at itself, but its fallout could spread throughout the global economy.
Later versions of the argument from design, such as Paley's, are much indebted to Shaftesbury, and Hume's attack on the argument in his Dialogues concerning Natural Religion could have been aimed at Shaftesbury's Moralists just as easily as it could have been aimed at Butler's Analogy of Religion.
Campbell's threats could have been aimed at any one of several Rangers veterans but not Mike Richter, who was outstanding in goal.
While Overton did not speak, Maynard suggested the comment could have been aimed at his own Somerset team-mate Tom Cooper, an Australian cricketer who plays for the club on a Dutch passport, following an earlier mis-field.
The memo could have been aimed at quieting internal unrest about Facebook's chief lobbyist Joel Kaplan.
Some have speculated that it could have been aimed at disrupting Iran's delayed Bushehr nuclear power plant or the uranium enrichment plant at Natanz.
As he slid on his knees towards the corner flag, hands cupped behind his ears, Steven Gerrard's gleeful celebration of his free-kick against Everton could have been aimed at any number of critics.
However, it was pointed out that the notes could have been aimed at the testers for the PSN release of Final Fantasy VII, or that Advent Children and Crisis Core used graphical assets from the PS3 demo.
"I would question to what extent the city attorney or even the state attorney general could get into this, given that Wells is a national bank". He suggested that Feuer's suit could have been aimed at drawing the attention of federal regulators -- something it now seems to have accomplished.
