'seem to target' is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when suggesting something is the direct focus of an action or process. Example: The tax cuts seem to target wealthy individuals.
He wondered why the strikes did not seem to target more of the taliban which he reasoned was needed.
Even more sinister are the few malicious individuals who seem to target vulnerable people and deliberately propagate detailed information about suicide methods.
Some of Mr. Khru Ya's other remarks to The Post: Instead of soldiers, these [insurgents] seem to target only teachers because they are unarmed and easy to kill.
Address forgotten causes: Many forms of innovative financing mechanisms seem to target single diseases or issues, but for healthcare to be truly universal the global health community will need to make a concerted effort to focus on less popular causes.
It's notable that creationists never seem to target research on, say, very ancient fish or insects, or recently extinct horses, and focus only on the charismatic dinosaurs, pterosaurs, marine reptiles or certain big mammals such as mammoths.
He may have creditably recovered some form after a poor start to the season, which is impressive at 35, but this game also emphasised there are creeping elements to his game that are going to be rendered unfixable by age At one point in the first half, he was left on his knees by the movement of Ighalo, who did seem to target Terry more than Zouma.
The Australians seemed to target James Tredwell, who has become England's Mr Reliable in recent times.
He took abuse from spurned Tottenham fans, certainly, but from other fans too, who seemed to target Campbell simply because the precedent was there to do so.
And there was also the pretty horrible matter of two homophobic banners in the south stand that seemed to target a Werder fan group.
Several years ago, a Japanese seabird specialist now studying the effects of climate change on life in Alaska's Bering Sea noticed that some birds seemed to target clusters of jellyfish.
The compound seems to target developing sperm both before and after meiosis, the special cell-division process that forms sperm and eggs, Matzuk says.
