Sentence examples for had targeted for from inspiring English sources

The Italian Treasury allotted all of the €8.5 billion of the 12-month bills it had targeted for sale, with its yields falling by half or more.

It was a game both sides had targeted for the win and it was Wakefield who edged further ahead in the 24th minute when Stuart Howarth punished Rovers for slack defending to score with ease.

When Bach exited the auditorium in the Buenos Aires Hilton having been anointed president, a position he had targeted for decades, a phone was thrust into his hand and the first person to offer his congratulations was Vladimir Putin.

Mourinho has acknowledged the player he had targeted for Real Madrid in 2011 and inherited at Chelsea in 2013 would initially coast through sessions, trusting in his natural ability "so not at top-concentration or looking to improve".

Iwo Jima was also the island the Navy had targeted for capture by a force of 100,000 men, including 70,000 Marine assault troops who had been training and rehearsing this landing for a year.

She had also agreed to photograph the dikes that held back the waters of the Red River Delta, protecting more than fifteen million Vietnamese peasants from flooding — and which American forces had targeted for bombing.

Uglesich's is a neighborhood joint just beyond downtown in a rundown neighborhood that city officials have targeted for renewal.

He continues to withhold their identity, but the Twins and the Montreal Expos are the teams he has targeted for extinction.

The plan also includes modest changes to Medicare and Medicaid, the US social insurance programmes Republicans have targeted for larger overhauls.

But even he concedes that the town must do a better job of following up on land parcels the town has targeted for purchase.

And we can't forget about Amazon, which Apple has targeted for use of the term "app store".