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The unfolding credit market dislocation took direct aim at the blue chips and financials this week.
They mainly aim at containing the fallout of carbon dioxide but fail to deal with the volume of carbon-intensive inputs in the first place.
Who controls the purse strings and what the people in the companies aim at will hopefully be the only change and for the better.
What they mean by that is that the central bank must avoid policies that aim at zero inflation.
He took aim at the target and fired, a perfect bulls eye, and with not even a single sound emitted.
Authorities should aim at hiving off the two companies from the state coffers.
He took aim at the antiwar movement, whose members, he claimed, had abdicated their historic responsibilities.
So the African Union will aim at the harmonization of admonitory and the fiscal policies of African countries.
Flying at 14,000 feet, their new Mark XIV bombsight gave them an excellent target to aim at.
He pulled out his slingshot and loaded it with a crab apple, and took aim at Parsons' broad back.
The archers drew back their bowstrings and took aim at the horde as it slowly inched forward.
The declinists of the late 1980s took aim at the spirit of national self-confidence.
Officers have been trained to aim at the belt buckle of the target to avoid hitting the head, which could still cause death.
This may be termed the qaestuary class, this being the end which they aim at.
The Government did aim at that objective, but it has now had to acknowledge that there is not a dog's chance of meeting it.
The reform of the executive branch of government should aim at making the cabinet fully responsible to the parliament.
In addition, the negotiations by the EU aim at separate accords with each region, and no country may negotiate in more than one bloc.
Among the methods that aim at inferring population parameters, many rely on the hypothesis of equilibrium between mutation, migration, and drift.
With the boat beached and the bow tilted up, a guard rail prevented him from taking aim at the enemy.
Most books that aim at putting your life back on the rails have a strong spiritual undercurrent.
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Examples from Classical Literature
On the other hand, he is warned not to aim at absoluteness, which of all people the Scots will least endure.
A few minutes ago I decided to reverse my concentrator and aim at a higher goal.
It does not aim at convicting a hostile disbelief, but at succouring a distressed faith.
In dioecious plants we must aim at the reproduction of brothers and sisters.
What on earth can it be that two people so dissimilar as you and Strickland could aim at?
He was soon taught that one must not aim at too wide a view-point or express oneself too freely.
It must aim at getting a majority on its side, and this it can only do by sensationalism.
What I really aim at is an absolute realism in the sphere of the ignobly decent.
All we aim at is a first marshalling of materials, an initial running of lines.
While doing this he espied Merwin advancing, and, taking hasty aim at him with his musket, fired.
Obviously, Pan-Americanism cannot aim at precise symmetry or theoretical consistency.
What can you do with a pop-gun if the foe will not wait until you have taken aim at him?
You aim at the stars, and if you do not hit them you may progressively approach them.
An innavigable sea washes with silent waves between us and the things we aim at and converse with.
She rams down about three times the regular load of powder, takes aim at a big buck that's pretty busy at the torturin', an' bangs away.
His head was all on one side, and one of his eyes was half shut up, as if he were taking aim at something with an invisible gun.
Both the squire and I returned the shot, but as we had nothing to aim at, it is probable we only wasted powder.
The racial will, as we have seen, must be taught to aim at the overman.
A tale must aim at condensation, but a bore acts in solution.
We should aim at celestial honour, and not regard the contemning of men.
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