Sentence examples for force directed at from inspiring English sources

It also poses questions about the aims of Turkey's escalation, with more force directed at the PKK than against Isis.

It threatened nuclear retaliation over the South joint naval and air exercise with the United States in the waters off the Korean peninsula last week, drills meant as a show of force directed at the North.

Given the broad consensus that there are legitimate grievances on both sides of the debate over police-community violence, and that reform is needed to address disproportionate police lethal force directed at African Americans, that is a striking, provocative omission.

The attacks Wednesday were reminiscent of the tactics employed by the Israeli military against Palestinian guerrillas; high-tech weaponry of overwhelming force, directed at specific targets, often in urban areas.

Attuned more to the business end of publishing than to content, Mr. Florio helped form a large group sales force directed at selling advertisements that were meant to run in all or most of the company's publications.

Yet incidents like the Bell shooting inspired a kind of split-screen effect, with one side featuring the meteoric ascent of a black Presidential candidate and the other replaying a wretched but familiar scene of excessive police force directed at a black male victim.

But the Bush administration was reluctant to terminate a treaty that NATO nations regarded as a cornerstone of arms control and whose abrogation would have enabled the Russians to increase missile forces directed at the United States' allies in Asia.

She also ordered the formation of a task force to deal with "political violence" directed at government officials.

Critics also contend that the endorsement constraint has real force when directed at state efforts to compel people to pursue particular activities, but much less force when directed at state efforts to discourage, or forbid, certain worthless activities (Hurka 1995, 47 48).

Twelve of the men had had evidence of blunt force trauma directed at their heads, with the blows falling mostly on their jaws and faces.

For these reasons, in the present study, orthodontic adhesives were applied directly to the enamel surfaces using a special apparatus and shear force was directed at the composite enamel interfaces until fracture occurred.