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How to use the word target in a Sentence? Page #9

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The current international border setting is virtually no-one-in and no-one-out, this needs to give way to a more sensible position and a much more ambitious border opening goal than the July 2022 target currently adopted by the Federal Government.

Innes Willox

Found on Reuters
2 years ago

I knew it was on target but didn’t see it go in, i heard the applause, so I knew it went in.

Satoshi Kodaira

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

Fear of being the target of an angry meltdown becomes added to the list of things already feared and avoided.

Steven Taylor

Found on CNN
2 years ago

They feel like they have a target on their backs for doing their work, it's one of the scariest parts of the attacks on democracy. You can't have a democracy that functions if you don't have people who are unafraid to be the administrators of elections.

Larry Norden

Found on CNN
2 years ago

If all G7 countries met their fair share target, this initiative would be two-thirds funded – and it would be 90% funded if all G20 countries made their fair share contributions.

South African

Found on Reuters
2 years ago

Nobody deserves to die, but I don’t mind saying, don’t pretend you are something that you are not, don’t target or lure anyone under that perception. That’s just wrong.

Jimmy Turk

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

We understand that this event may cause fear and anxiety in the community, and in particular the Muslim community, in any community targeted by hate. I want to reassure all Londoners that all of us on the call today and many others stand with you and support you, there is no tolerance in this community for individuals who, motivated by hate, target others with violence.

London Police Chief Steve Williams

Found on CNN
2 years ago

If you're a ransomware actor, your goal is to inflict as much pain as possible to compel these companies to pay you, this is beyond cybersecurity only, this is now a cyber-physical event where actual, physical-world processes get halted. When you can target companies in those environments, clearly that's where the most pain is felt because that's where they make money.

Katell Thielemann

Found on CNN
2 years ago

Over the past several weeks a growing number of House Democrats wrongly blamed the violence in the Middle East on Israel, in fact, Representatives Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez,RashidaTlaib, and Cori Bush irresponsibly tried to delegitimize our closest ally in the region, calling it an ‘apartheid state.’ Within days, this same sentiment of bigotry spilled into several major U.S. cities. Graphic videos showed pro-Hamas mobs intentionally target random Americans simply because they were Jewish.

Kevin McCarthy

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

And if the vote is in question, and folks don't know that the law is being followed, what is that gon na do to turnout ? What is that going to do to people's confidence in the election ? that doesn't target any particular county. It applies to every county across the state.

Bryan Hughes

Found on CNN
2 years ago

We think Amazon’s roll-out of pharmacies will initially be focused on locations located in Whole Foods stores, similar to the Target and Walmart model.

Ann Hynes

Found on Reuters
3 years ago

It is outrageous that Fulton County continues to be a target of those who can not accept the results from last year's election, the votes have been counted three times, including a hand recount, and no evidence of fraud has been found. The fact remains that Fulton County safely and securely carried out an election in the midst of a public health pandemic. It's a shame to see that the' Big Lie' lives on and could cost the hardworking taxpayers of Fulton County.

Robb Pitts

Found on CNN
3 years ago

It was brutal. I cried every night, on top of the effects of the pandemic, I have to be super careful if I venture out to go shopping or consider twice before taking public transportation because for some reason, I am a target.

Charlton Rhee .

Found on CNN
3 years ago

Free Palestine’s a really scary time to be outwardly Jewish, this is Skokie. It’s a heavily Jewish town. What’s bothering me is that everyone is saying, ‘ Oh, this is just about Israeli and Free Palestine, it’s not about New York Jews.' No, they’re targeting synagogues. That’s a direct target on New York Jews. This has nothing to do with Israel.

Dina Shiner

Found on FOX News
3 years ago

This is Skokie. It’s a heavily Jewish town. What’s bothering me is that everyone is saying, ‘ Oh, this is just about Israeli and Free Palestine, it’s not about New York Jews.' No, they’re targeting synagogues. That’s a direct target on New York Jews. This has nothing to do with Israel.

Dina Shiner

Found on FOX News
3 years ago

We now know in hindsight that it has nothing to do with us, it has nothing to do with our background or family. CLICK HERE TO GET THE FOX NEWS APP She said her father has tried to take his own life twice, after Iranian officials threatened to target his wife and children. In the U.S., Secretary of State Antony Blinken has urged the international community to condemn what he called.

Elika Ashoori

Found on FOX News
3 years ago

She's really connected with our target audience : She's youthful, she's joyous and she's more than meet than eye.

Don Lane

Found on CNN
3 years ago

I’m always going to push for a tougher response to Chairman Xi – that’s why I want to double DARPA’s funding, as a China Hawk, I’d like to see us target our spending on combating the threat from the CCP; as a fiscal hawk, I’d like a lower topline number for certain other non-CCP items. I’m going to keep working on countering Beijing’s aggression in the NDAA and the Intelligence Authorization Act. This is a critical fight and a worthy investment.

Ben Sasse

Found on FOX News
3 years ago

We have not harmed anyone, we have no issues with anyone, and we peacefully live side by side with the Jewish community, we have done nothing to anyone and there is no reason to target Detective Annette Shelton.The mosque, especially on our holiday.

Mohammad Younus

Found on CNN
3 years ago

If it was all random, why was he asking if it was the Republican baseball practice? That’s not random. That’s a specific, intended target. As an aside, was he thinking about, you know, he would die in a blaze of glory? That’s certainly possible but that’s not his main motivation here, he was looking, in my opinion, for Republicans, in an attempt to kill Republicans. I don’t think there’s anybody who looks at the evidence completely and rationally who can come to any other conclusion.

Morgan Griffith

Found on FOX News
3 years ago

The amount of unemployment insurance benefits provided in response to the COVID-19 pandemic is unprecedented in the history of the nation's unemployment insurance system, unfortunately, the significant increase in benefits made the program a target for those seeking to defraud government programs.

Larry Turner

Found on CNN
3 years ago

President Biden’s net-zero electricity by 2035 power sector target outstrips even the greenest-leaning states’ targets to eliminate emitting generation by 2040-2050, net-zero electricity by 2035 already looks like a heavy lift; doing it without the existing nuclear fleet seems more like magical thinking.

Timothy Fox

Found on FOX News
3 years ago

If President Biden is willing to spurn some environmentalists within his base to keep nuclear power alive, it may reinforce his seriousness about achieving the target, and that means natural gas should not expect support as a ‘bridge fuel,’.

Timothy Fox

Found on FOX News
3 years ago

They can fit more easily into local real estate than, let's say, a Walmart or Target or something that's a bigger format, that certainly means they can go in more places.

Ken Fenyo

Found on CNN
3 years ago

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