Sentence examples for statement directed at from inspiring English sources

"This appears to be a political statement directed at presidential battleground states, rather than a real business announcement".

"I would like to emphasize," Mr. Blair added in a statement directed at the wider Arab and Muslim world, "we are doing everything we can to protect those holy sites and shrines".

Meanwhile, on Thursday, Commissioner Bud Selig released a four-page statement directed at Rodriguez's admission that he used performance-enhancing drugs from 2001 to 2003, when he was with the Texas Rangers.

Or as Maths and English's opening track, World Outside, put it, "there's a world outside the ghetto, and I want you to see it" - a statement directed at himself, I fancy, as well as us.

He was intense and he pumped fastballs, blowing away Jay Buhner with three waist-high heaters in the second inning, a statement directed at the Mariners' veteran -- and all the Seattle hitters, for that matter: You cannot hit me.

In a statement directed at the prime minister, the coalition said: "We are a cross-section of British society who believe in the necessity of keeping our nation safe and secure.

But since the election, he has become more forceful in foreign policy, combative and, some say, aggressive in his statements directed at neighboring Armenia, with which it has long been at odds.

North Korea celebrates those dates each year with hostile statements directed at countries it considers its enemies, as well as with festivities aimed at increasing domestic support for its top leaders.

[Page B1.] The United Nations secretary general, Kofi Annan, warned that "the recent statements directed at Syria should not contribute to a wider destabilization in a region already affected heavily by the war in Iraq".

There were also more assertive statements directed at neighbours Pakistan – with which India has fought four wars – and China – with which India has had one conflict – and a promise that Modi in power would create an India that no one could talk down to on the international stage.

But Sanneh is describing a situation where the speech in question focused on an individual's actions, and potentially on statements directed at that individual.