Sentence examples for shell aiming from inspiring English sources

Countries like Oman seek to husband their oil and gas to extend their income over the long run, but Shell, aiming to increase value for its shareholders, has a shorter time horizon: its license in Oman expires in 2012, so it has emphasized pumping more oil sooner.

The schemes include: plasma equilibrium control and resistive wall mode stabilization, aiming at controlling actively the discharge when the passive action of the shell vanishes; the rotation of the localised helical deformation to minimize the enhanced plasma wall interaction; the MHD mode control and the 'intelligent shell', aiming at achieving a better comprehension of the underlying physics.

That means, these nanoconjugates were designed and produced with a "cadmium-free" nanocore (Bi2S3) and surface functionalized with the chitosan polysaccharide shell aiming at rendering them biocompatible and, therefore, theoretically safer for biological applications.

On Feb. 18, an artillery shell aimed at the enemy roared over a hill where one of his companies was dug in.

The family said the house appears to have been strafed simultaneously from the back, at close range, while what may have been a stray shell aimed at the market hit the front.

One is a widely reproduced satirical poster, "Victory 1945," showing an airborne black artillery shell aimed directly at the opening of the cannon barrel from which it was shot.

Birks attempted to dig out these men, "standing exposed", but another shell aimed at the C Coy post killed Birks, and four others, before he could save them.

Although drug delivery agents usually concentrate all the sensitivities in a single shell, we report a system made of three different shells, aiming at gaining more control on the sensitivities by optimizing each synthesis step, and therefore at being able to tune the properties both independently and in relation to one another.

The Israeli military responded with artillery shells aimed at the source of the fire, according to an army spokeswoman.

All of them listen for rockets and mortar shells aimed at the Green Zone, the highly protected area that houses the United States Embassy and many important Iraqi government buildings and that is a favorite target of insurgents.

The film, "No Fire Zone: The Killing Fields of Sri Lanka," juxtaposes footage of an army commander asserting that his troops had not used heavy weapons with harrowing video of villagers struck by artillery shells aimed at food distribution points and hospitals.