Sentence examples for expedition aimed at from inspiring English sources

This is not a war, let alone one of self-defence, but a punitive expedition aimed at maintaining the siege and illegal military occupation.

Conversely, 500 black loyalists who escaped initially to Nova Scotia chose in 1791 to join a British expedition aimed at establishing a free black settlement at Sierra Leone, a planned new promised land.

Four years later, during an expedition aimed at subduing the Chukchi people, Ivan Fyodorov and Mikhail Gvozdev sailed east from Cape Dezhnyov, discovered Cape Prince of Wales, and explored the coast to the vicinity of Nome, thereby becoming the first Europeans to see any part of Alaska.

Eddies entering Omani shelf waters from the central Arabian Sea have been the subject of a specialized expedition aimed at studying the role of eddies in the structure and functioning of the pelagic ecosystem of the western Arabian Sea (Piontkovski and Banse 2006).

However, we will not go along with a partisan fishing expedition aimed at honorable public servants.

John undertook in 1327 an expedition aimed at Kraków, which he was compelled to abort; in 1328, he waged a crusade against Lithuania during which he formalized an alliance with the Teutonic Order.

In London, Christie became friends with some of the people who were later to form the Angry Brigade which, in the early 70s, carried out a number of small bombing expeditions aimed at the Ted Heath government.

He did this only after multiple polar expeditions aimed at studying the phenomenon failed and were deemed too treacherous.

This week, in a letter to Smith, Johnson described Smith's 18-month inquiry into NSF's grantsmaking process as "a fishing expedition" aimed ultimately at reducing NSF's funding of the social and behavioral sciences.

Part of his Sahara expedition was aimed at raising money for a charity to help bring clean water to Africa.

It has been difficult to determine, though, which of those fatal expeditions were aimed at finding Bergdahl and which would have been undertaken anyway.