Sentence examples for instance aimed at from inspiring English sources

Terrorism is, in the first instance, aimed at showing defiance, exacting revenge and demonstrating strength.

In days gone by, the answer generally given to the West Lothian questions by senior politicians - from Labour and other parties - was: "Would you please stop asking such an irritating question?" Given that this was, in the first instance, aimed at the estimable Tam Dalyell, the erstwhile MP for West Lothian, the chances of success were minimal.

So although the corporation still has a heavy focus on education, and has moved from building libraries in Carnegie's day to expanding higher education and adult education, it also has programmes in other fields, for instance aimed at promoting international peace and the advancement of minorities.

Rothman, Sheeran & Wood [ 62] also suggest other types of strategies, for instance aimed at addressing implicit attitudes that may prompt behavior automatically, such as evaluative conditioning, association training and approach/avoidance training.

As a result, Israel fired warning shots into Syria and in one instance aimed tank fire at a Syrian artillery position.

The Mail's Stephen Glover, for instance, aimed his cannons directly at the prime minister.

This specific modeling instance aims at maximizing expected portfolio value, and penalizes possible losses.

"Drill Here, Drill Now, Pay Less," for instance, is aimed at the pure activist.

The prophecies of what is called Deutero-Isaiah (Isaiah 40 45), for instance, were aimed at preserving Yahwism in Babylonia.

The Amerli bombing, for instance, was aimed at a community of Shiite Turkmen, who remain in the country in extremely small numbers.

Finally, and most importantly, there is the work of the philosopher Michael Bratman (1987), which, although in the first instance is aimed at human agents, lays the foundation of the BDI approach to artificial agents.