8 sentences with 'targeted'

Example sentences and phrases with the word targeted and other words derived from it.

« They targeted both the nobles and, especially, the Church, which was the largest and richest institution in Europe. »
« Inquisitions had existed since the Middle Ages - the first was in 1184 and targeted a heretical movement in southern France - but they were always short-term responses to heresy. Under Paul III, the Inquisition became a permanent part of the Church. »
« In addition to non-white races, social Darwinists targeted elements of their own societies for vilification, often lumping together various identities and behaviours as "unfit". »
« In turn, Fascist propaganda sought to instil Fascist pride and identity in Italian citizens, while Fascist-led police forces targeted potential dissidents, sentencing thousands to prison terms or internal exile in closed prison villages (not unlike some of the Russian gulags that would exemplify a different but related totalitarian system in the East). »
« The Nazis targeted almost every conceivable social group with a specific propaganda campaign and encouraged (or demanded) German citizens to join a specific Nazi league: workers were encouraged to work hard for the good of the state, women were encouraged to produce as many healthy children as possible (and to stay out of the workplace), boys were enrolled in a paramilitary scouting organisation, the Hitler Youth, and girls in the League of German Girls, trained as future mothers and domestic servants. »
« From Asia to Latin America, independence movements and rebel groups that adopted communist ideology were targeted by the United States, while those that avoided it rarely attracted the ire of either superpower. »
« Algerian civilians were often caught in the middle of the fighting, and the French army targeted civilians as it saw fit. »
« They also targeted non-white citizens of European countries, citizens born in Europe to immigrant parents. In other words, citizens of immigrant descent were legally equal to any other citizen, but the far right capitalised on a latent racist definition of British or French or Swiss or German as white. »

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