Mr. Bo, Chongqing's populist party secretary, is widely seen as aiming for a spot in the nation's ruling elite when China's leadership turns over next year.
In a move seen as aimed at defusing power servers on the fast courts and stolid baseliners on the slow courts, the I.T.F. said that new balls would be used.
In a move seen as aimed at lowering the tone of the PdL's outrage, the transport minister, Maurizio Lupi, announced that none of his fellow government colleagues would attend the solidarity rally outside Berlusconi's Palazzo Grazioli.
Similarly, while the developing world could benefit greatly from a vitamin-A rice or plants that can tolerate drought, the current products are seen as aimed mainly at wealthy farmers in developed countries.
The orchestrated campaign against President Pervez Musharraf, the denigration of the Pakistani Army, calls for the capture of Pakistan's nuclear assets, the string of suicide bombings and terrorism in Baluchistan are all seen as aimed at this malevolent design.
This past summer, Mr. Trump also contacted Senator Thom Tillis, a North Carolina Republican who in August introduced a bipartisan bill limiting the president's power to dismiss special prosecutors — a measure widely seen as aimed at protecting Mr. Mueller from Mr. Trump.
Most of the tests this year have been seen as aimed at placating domestic anxieties that Pakistan may be pressured to dismantle its nuclear program after it emerged that its top nuclear scientist, A.Q. Khan, had been involved in proliferation, and because of peace moves with India.
Over time, the focus of that effort shifted to inner-city poverty and many of the programmes Johnson launched came to be seen as aimed at minorities, even though to this day white people make up the largest number of beneficiaries.
The mayor said that uniting communities could boost economic growth in comments that will be seen as aimed at the US president-elect, who has reiterated his election promise of building a new barrier between Mexico and the US and has pledged to deport up to 3 million illegal migrants.
But President Obama and the Europeans are offering yet another round of talks to the Iranians, to get them to stop enriching uranium, and Turkey does not want the missile system to be seen as aimed at Tehran, so it is diplomatically impolite to mention Iran.
Ms Martin pledged to abolish the former government's mandatory-sentencing law for theft and property offences, a law criticised by the United Nations because it was seen as aimed at homeless, unemployed aboriginal youths.But perhaps the biggest shockwaves were felt in Canberra, where the federal conservative coalition government, led by John Howard, is facing an election by December.
