Sentences with 'targeting'
Example sentences and phrases with the word targeting and other words derived from it.
• « Meanwhile, the Loyalists carried out their own atrocities, especially targeting members of the church. »
• « Two major naval engagements in the Pacific spelled disaster for Japan. In May 1942, at the Battle of the Coral Sea, American forces defeated a Japanese invasion force targeting Australia and pushed back the Japanese fleet. »
• « Stalin relied on the NKVD (Russian secret police) to carry out the purges, targeting the better-off peasants known as kulaks, then the old Bolsheviks (who had participated in the revolution itself), army officers, middle-ranking members of the Communist party and, finally, tens of thousands of ordinary citizens caught up in the grotesque machinery of accusation and punishment that plagued the country in the second half of the 1930s. »
• « In the Deep South, slavery as an institution was strong and profitable. In the Upper South, the opposite was true. The anxiety of this economic uncertainty manifested itself in the form of harsh laws targeting free blacks. »