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How to use the word TARGETS in a Sentence?

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If you can’t get your targets to vote for a positive vision of the future, convince them to vote against a vision of impending doom.

Oscar Auliq-Ice

added by Auliq-Ice
1 year ago

We have emissions targets we’re trying to meet.

Joe Manchin

Found on New York Times
1 year ago

As is always the case with PLA exercises in the Taiwan Strait and South China Sea areas, Beijing is telling the United States, regional countries, Taiwan Island and its own people, that the PLA has the capability to conduct blockade and joint air and missile strikes on targets in and around Taiwan Island.

United States

Found on CNN
1 year ago

The mainland Chinese learned from their radars where these flights were going, what their targets were, and they began to build sites for the missiles but move them around, so they would build a site here, occupy that site for a while but if they thought the next flight would be going over here, they would move the missiles. It was a cat-and-mouse game, literally a black cat and mouse game between the routines from the flights from Taiwan and those air defense troops of the( Chinese) mainland, working out where the next flight would go.

Chris Pocock

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Our partners are aware of the types of weapons we need – first and foremost, fighter jets and long-range missiles that can hit targets up to 300 km away, these are not weapons of escalation, but rather weapons of defense and deterrence against the aggressor. We are actively negotiating to unlock all these solutions. I have instructed all our diplomats in key capitals to make this a priority.

Dmytro Kuleba

Found on CNN
1 year ago

The main targets were energy facilities to deprive Ukrainians of power and warmth, the majority of missiles and drones were intercepted by our defenders. Unfortunately there were hits at substations. Nevertheless the situation in the power grid remains under control. Power engineers are doing everything to provide power supply.

Denys Shmyhal

Found on CNN
1 year ago

The Human Life Protection Act targets abortion providers, exempting women ‘upon whom an abortion is performed or attempted to be performed’ from liability under the law.

Steve Marshall

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Your brain and your immune system are very tightly interconnected, studies have shown when you're depressed or anxious, your immune system doesn't work as well against targets like viruses and bacteria.

Angela Roberts

Found on CNN
2 years ago

Even some Targets are paying $ 19 an hour. I can't compete with big companies right now, and that's a struggle.

Macy Buhler

Found on CNN
2 years ago

When your family, your company, and all the people in your orbit have become the targets of an unfounded, politically motivated Witch Hunt supported by lawyers, prosecutors, and the Fake News Media, you have no choice.

Rudy Giuliani

Found on CNN
2 years ago

Women in Canada are not walking around this country in a state of constant consent to sexual activity unless and until they say No or offer resistance to anyone who targets them for sexual activity.

Catherine Anne Fraser

added by Greying_Geezer
2 years ago

They're just huge honeypots. They just hold huge amounts of crypto assets, and so they are very obvious targets.

Tom Robinson

Found on CNN
2 years ago

Among its peers, North Korea is unique in their deep, active involvement in cybercrime, unlike other countries who may contract and bargain with domestic criminals, the North Korean state carries out cybercrime directly, against targets all over the globe.

John Hultquist

Found on CNN
2 years ago

I’ve had a chance to see Tua throw the ball, to myself, but … he’s that due, bro. Like, what a lot of people don’t know, like, I’m not just saying this because he’s my quarterback now … Like, I’m not trying to get more targets right now, but what I’m trying to say is Tua is that deal, bro, bro, he has a heck of an arm, bro. He’s accurate. He can throw the deep ball, and he actually goes through his reads, where people are like on Twitter like saying, ‘Oh, he doesn’t go through his reads.’ Man, this dude is that dude.

Tyreek Hill

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

I’ve had a chance to see Tua throw the ball, to Tyreek Hill, but … he’s that due, bro. Like, what a lot of people do n’t know, like, I ’m not just saying this because he’s my quarterback now … Like, I ’m not trying to get more targets right now, but what I ’m trying to say is Tua is that deal, bro, bro, he has a heck of an arm, bro. He’s accurate. He can throw the deep ball, and he actually goes through his reads, where people are like on Twitter like saying, ‘ Oh, he does n’t go through his reads. ’ Man, this dude is that dude.

Tyreek Hill

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

We will strike at those targets which we have not yet been hitting.

Vladimir Putin

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

This as I mentioned before does appear to be a targeted act and the individual who is a suspect appears to have had other targets as well. It appears to be related to the judicial system.

Josh Kaul

Found on CNN
2 years ago

Those who may have been other targets have been notified of that, but we are not aware of any active threat to individuals, if we become aware of any specific ongoing threat, we will certainly notify people when we are aware of that.

Josh Kaul

Found on CNN
2 years ago

We have a Second Amendment to the Constitution. We take it seriously. There's the right to keep and bear arms in this country, and so what I've done is encourage some bipartisan discussions that are going on. In fact, I just had a call with one of the members of it to see if we can find a way forward consistent with the Second Amendment that targets the problem.

Mitch McConnell

Found on CNN
2 years ago

As you get east of the Mississippi River, the population density rapidly increases. We essentially have more targets to hit on the dartboard.

Victor Gensini

Found on CNN
2 years ago

Ukrainians are being very, very savvy about how they attack the Russian army, the vehicles they've destroyed and the people that they've killed. You see the number of colonels killed, it has been significant. They're really creating chaos and confusion inside the Russian army, which means the numbers are even more important than they seem because of the specific targets the Ukrainians have been selecting.

Michael Ryan

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

What this really represents is North Korea's steady progress toward the ability to put multiple nuclear warheads on targets in North Korea in the event of a war.

Jeffrey Lewis

Found on CNN
2 years ago

The initial attacks that we face from the media and Big Tech came from this angle that we’re spreading misinformation, and we need to be fact checked, and it was really weird how they were treating these jokes so seriously and giving them a truth rating, that didn’t really work out too well for them, they actually faced a lot of backlash for that, they were mocked very heavily, so there seems to be this shift in strategy. We’re now, instead of focusing on the misinformative nature of our satirical claims, they’re focusing more on the fact that we’re punching down without jokes or aiming at the wrong targets.

Seth Dillon

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

People then feel safe, and they don't have food, so stores and breadlines will open. They'll go out and stand in line to try to get bread or food or other supplies, and then the bombing resumes, and that bombing targets those lines.

Jimmy Hill

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

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