If you shell a military base and happen to kill civilians, you have not committed a war crime; if you deliberately target cities and towns, you have.
People confuse the subject of the joke with the target of the joke, and they're very rarely the same.
I feel that these stories are being written to articulate certain confusions and disappointments, and I do mean to shake up the reader, and I do hope they're on target.
My target is to make the players as rich as possible within the financial constraints of the club. My target is not to give them less money. I'm happy to make them rich.
With social media, one can target the audience and reach out to the segment in a very precise, cost-effective manner.
The Unites States used to use law enforcement to aggressively target North Korea illicit activities - counterfeiting U.S. currency, drug-running, counterfeit cigarettes and pharmaceuticals - until diplomacy gutted those efforts. The effort should be reinvigorated.
The Cox Report documents a systematic, well-planned effort by the Chinese military at the highest levels to target and acquire technology for military modernization.
Italy in the 1920s, Germany in the '30s, East Germany in the '50s, Czechoslovakia in the '60s, the Latin American dictatorships in the '70s, China in the '80s and '90s - all dictatorships and would-be dictators target newspapers and journalists.
The Patriot missile is a point defence missile. Point defence means that you put the missile at a location to defend a very specific target such as an airfield, a supply dump or a headquarters.
Any deviation is looked upon as a perversion, is feared, and is usually a target of hatred and prejudice.
I don't know why, but I'm an easy target. And I don't do anything to dispel it.
I have a very normal life. I go to the grocery store, I go to Target. I don't have an assistant, I don't have an entourage.
Turkey does not have an official exchange rate target.
I seek individual investments that will allow me to target total portfolio returns of at least 20% annually after fees and expenses on an annual basis over a period of years, not months.
Pick the target, freeze it, personalize it, and polarize it.
Many people are target people. Once when Louis B. Mayer insulted me I poured a glass of water over his head.
Hackers rarely have full knowledge of the technology stack of a target.
I don't have to go on a tour to find out what's happening in middle America. I just go to Target.
During consideration in the Education and the Workforce Committee this year, Democrats and Republicans worked constructively together to improve the delivery of Head Start services to the target populations.
Evolution has long been the target of illogical arguments that use presumption.