Sentence examples for target to strike from inspiring English sources

And after an attack from an informal, self-organised group, there is no clear target to strike in any case.

This seems to echo the larger theme of women-led films and television shows this summer, as in Killing Eve's insistence that only a woman could get closer to her target to strike him in the femoral artery without him noticing.

We had a large menu of targets to strike from and we chose from there".

American airpower is of limited use because there are few valuable targets to strike in an impoverished country like Afghanistan.

There are few obvious targets to strike in this collection of Yorkshire villages, nor much scope for a clash of cultures (the non-white population is under 2%).

In the end they bit the bullet, and bombed the Serbian capital city for weeks on end, until there were no more targets to strike.

After the first combat sorties by RAF warplanes over Iraq returned to base having failed to locate any suitable targets to strike, Michael Fallon said ultimately Isis – also known as Isil or IS – would have to be defeated in Syria as well as Iraq.

Expanding targets to strike the homes of suspected commanders appeared to mark a new and risky phase of the operation, given the likelihood of civilian casualties in the densely populated territory of 1.5 million Palestinians.

Rather, they had six primary targets to strike in the downtown area: the headquarters of the ARVN General Staff at Tan Son Nhut Air Base; the Independence Palace, the US Embassy, Saigon, the Long Binh Naval Headquarters, and the National Radio Station.

But this morning, the ship's captain said there were still targets left to strike.

Because the South had few if any large cities to attack, Mr. Keegan notes, its army "presented itself as the only target at which to strike".