Swallows and swifts are mere target practice.
To raise an obvious point: are under-defended carriers (Gordon Brown's job creation gesture to Rosyth) a good idea in the 21st century or mere target practice?
Some officials have publicly stated the date is a mere target and any force reduction will be purely symbolic, but the President himself is quoted as insisting on a firm timetable, because "I can't lose the whole Democratic Party".
Part of that transformation was due to attempts by the crown to monopolize financial penalties, but other changes sprang from the inability of the system to include adequate consideration of the victim as more than a mere target of crime.
In particular, antigen-stimulated T-cell proliferation not only requires adequate costimulation, but also an increased density of MHC/peptide complexes on APC, as compared to mere targeting of cytotoxic activity (Schild et al, 1990; Gervois et al, 1996).
Such binding is a general characteristic of attention (Treisman & Gelade, 1980), and recent work has shown that a robust hallmark of attention (the N2PC) is specifically associated with the combined localization and identification of targets in a visual search task (Hyun, Woodman, Vogel, Hollingworth, & Luck, 2009) but unassociated with mere target detection.
It seems, for example, that what comes into existence on the above account of the generating process (which talks of authors' conceiving of their literary creations) is not a fictional object as such, but rather a (mere) intentional object, the target of a certain authorial thought.
Jack-booted German officers and hood-wearing Klansmen patrol the streets of America by day, and the game goes out of its way to portray them not as mere pop-up targets for the trigger-happy but as cruel, morally decrepit deviants who must be stopped because of what they stand for.
Adequacy of the screening and not mere attaining of targets could be of interest to public health.
A fee exemption policy for pregnant women, that in essence consists of abolishing user fees for a certain group of the population, may seem at first a simple intervention: it can be introduced by mere administrative fiat, targets a well-specified group and has a simple causal chain: abolishing user fees reduces financial access barriers and leads thus to higher utilisation by pregnant women.
