Sentence examples for targets to strike from inspiring English sources

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.

Roundup was targeted to strike out at Monsanto and GMOs.

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

Our greatly increased worldwide counterterrorism efforts since September the 11th have constrained the ability of Al Qaida to attack the U.S. again and have led terrorist groups to view the homeland as a harder target to strike than it was on 9/11.

As the controversy over autonomous weapons continues to heat up, it is equally easy to forget that we already have weapons like the Brimstone missile that can autonomously pick its own target, decide where on the target to strike to cause maximal damage and even coordinate with other missiles to select targets, entirely autonomously.

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.