Sentence examples for understood to target from inspiring English sources

The ban did not explicitly refer to Islamic dress but was widely understood to target veils that fully covered a woman's face.

The week before, the N.Y.P.D., in a move widely understood to target Critical Mass, had announced new "parade rules" requiring all groups of twenty or more bicyclists, or thirty-five or more pedestrians, to seek a permit before assembling.

Self-management support is generally understood to target all three sets of tasks set out by the Corbin and Strauss framework.

Organisers of the Sony Radio Academy Awards are understood to have targeted Chris Evans as the man they want to take over from long-running host Paul Gambaccini.

The group is understood to be targeting civilians of Nuer origin after it clashed with Nuer soldiers defecting from the Sudanese People's Liberation Army a week ago.

The company said the broadcaster would post a 32% year-on-year increase in revenue in the third quarter of 2011 compared with the same quarter in 2010, and is understood to be targeting breakeven by 2012.

Criminals with the stolen IDs are understood to have targeted Apple Stores in particular because they both accept Apple Pay and offer high-value items, which can then be sold on for cash.

The US military are also understood to have targeted a second al-Qaeda-linked militant group -  the Khorasan Group - to disrupt the threat of "imminent attack plotting against the United States and Western interests".

The signalling mechanisms downstream of activated VEGFR-3 are inadequately understood to justify targeting this component of lymphangiogenic signalling at this stage.

It had a movie-star director willing to spend his own money, who understood how to target large numbers of well-organized church groups and political conservatives.

Other Labour figures understood to have been targeted include Lord Prescott, David Blunkett, Tessa Jowell and Chris Bryant.