7 sentences with “targets”

Once the Mongols had conquered a given territory, they deported and used soldiers and engineers from the conquered villages against new targets:

Treatment with psychotropic drugs, used in psychiatric medicine, also targets the symptom, as tranquillisers and antidepressants act on the process of synapses and the production of specific neurotransmitters.

Nikita Khrushchev claimed that the USSR had also developed missiles that could reach targets on the other side of the world, and therefore the West feared that the Soviets could just as easily detonate a nuclear weapon in the United States as in Europe.

From the Battle of Britain onwards, while priority was given to military targets, German bombers also deliberately sought civilian targets, and when the war began to turn against Germany, the Allies eagerly returned the favour by raining bombs on German cities.

Meanwhile, fighting in the Pacific continued for months. By March 1945, US planes could bomb Japan itself, and civilian and military targets were destroyed, often with incendiary bombs. One attack destroyed 40% of Tokyo in three hours; the death toll was immense.

The most effective support provided by Italy or Germany came from the German air force, the Luftwaffe, which used Spain as a training ground for real targets. The Loyalists had no means to fight the planes, so they suffered constant defeats and setbacks from German bombing raids.

His targets were monopolies and protectionist taxes and tariffs that limited trade between nations; Adam Smith argued that if states abandoned such burdensome practices, the market itself would increase wealth as if the general prosperity of the nation were raised by an "invisible hand".