Feathertop aimed a finger at him.

In the judgment of Chief of Staff Scott it was ironic that the draft policy of a Democratic President, aimed at Germany, had to be pushed through the House of Representatives by the ranking minority member of the Military Affairs Committee -- a Republican Jew born in Germany!!

From an exercise involving merely raucous, rough-and-tumble comedy, in his hands the performance turned into a revel of wit and word play, indecent at times, but always learned, pointed, and carefully aimed at some individuals present, and at the whole assembly.

Our Office of Foreign and Domestic Commerce carries on a vigorous program, directly aimed at solving and expediting the problems of manufacturers in the lower employment categories.

Rodent control work for the 10-year period will be aimed at control of the most serious infestations of harmful rodents, such as porcupines and mice, on high-value areas of forage and commercial timberlands.

A training program in a depressed area may have few enrollees unless there is some apparent prospect for better employment opportunities afterwards, and the prospect may be poor if the training is aimed solely at jobs in the local community.

Moreover, it is likely that Federal policies aimed at stimulating a faster rate of economic growth of the country, to keep ahead of the Communist countries and to demonstrate that our free economic system is better than theirs, will lead to rising Federal spending in certain areas such as education, housing, medical aid, and the like.

Most manufacturers also seem to be concentrating on formulating fire-resistant or self-extinguishing grades of urethane foam that are aimed specifically at the burgeoning building markets.

Public-spirited backers staked him to a brand-new airplane, aimed at putting their city and state on the flying map.

But if there was evidence at the Trial that aimed over Eichmann's head at his collaborators in the societies where he functioned, the press seems to have missed it.

In June 1845, the Governor and Council of Assiniboia imposed a 20 per cent duty on imports via Hudson's Bay which were viewed as aimed at the `` very vitals of the Company's trade and power ''.

As we embark upon the sixties we have an opportunity to build a third strong arm, aimed at the development of people, at the fuller realization of their creative human potential, and a better understanding among them ''.

His bill, allegedly aimed at Hoffa, would amend the Sherman, Clayton and Norris-LaGuardia acts to authorize the issuance of federal injunctions in any transportation strike and would make it illegal for any union to act in concert with any other union -- even a sister local in the same international.

The passage of the Sherman Act was aimed at giant monopolies.

In the supernatural atmosphere of cosmic government, only the ruling elite was ever concerned with a kingdom-wide ordering of nature: popular religion aimed at more personal benefits from magical powers.

Early Chinese anchoritism was theoretically aimed at a mystic pantheist union with the divine, personal salvation being achieved when the mystical recluse united with divine essence.

Not so well known is the growth of broadcasting operations aimed wholly or partly at Negro listeners -- an audience which, in the United States, comprises some 19,000,000 people with $20,000,000,000 to spend each year.

It is a humorous political critique, aimed squarely at the then ruling party Partido Revolucionario Institucional ( PRI ) and its paramilitary caciques, at a time when freedom of speech in politics was highly restricted.

* Many traditional beliefs in the Philippines still practised to an extent today are animist and spiritist in origin in that there are rituals aimed at pacifying malevolent spirits or are apotropaic in nature.

At a meeting of the U. S. House Committee on Science and Astronautics one day after Gagarin's flight, many congressmen pledged their support for a crash program aimed at ensuring that America would catch up.

The date of the book is not our main focus here, what is more important is Orosius ’ s objective in responding to Saint Augustine ’ s request by writing a book aimed at proving that Rome ’ s decadence – it should be remembered that Rome was sacked by Alaric I in 410 – had nothing at all to do with the fact that the Romans had relatively recently converted to Christianity.

The series would have been composed of 52 11-minute episodes and aimed at a pre-school audience, but nothing of this project came to pass after the initial announcement.

" And Anthony Wood, after declaring that Fell " was exceeding partial in his government even to corruption ; went thro ' thick and thin ; grasped at all yet did nothing perfect or effectually ; cared not what people said of him, was in many things very rude and in most pedantic and pedagogical ,"-- concludes with the acknowledgment, " yet still aimed at the public good.

One of Exidy's efforts aimed at trivia lovers during the 1980s was the quiz game Fax, a multi-level game housed in a large wooden cabinet that stood about 4 feet high and looked nothing like other video games of the time period.

Many episodes began with a prologue of a person being killed by the episode's menace ; while nothing graphic is shown, it was more grown up than most shows aimed at children.

As a result, the GBM undertook negotiations with the BNP and the Racial Preservation Society in early 1966 aimed at effecting a closer union but these came to nothing, with the RPS in particular turning the request down flat.

He knows nothing of the secrets the top-secret military installation holds until he is caught up in the desperate series of events to stop the mothership flight after participating in a strange operation surrounding the government conspiracy aimed at keeping the American public in the dark about what is in the Groom Lake complex.

According to Catherine H. Zuckert, Jaffa " aimed at nothing less than bringing to bear on America the methods and substance of the Straussian revival of the Socratic tradition of political philosophy.

In Hildebrand ’ s opinion, Hitler ’ s foreign policy aimed at nothing less than world conquest in his own lifetime, and those who argue otherwise are seriously misunderstanding the full scope of Hitler ’ s ambitions.

Around 1000 A. D. started the first hostilities between Lucca and Pisa aimed at gaining control over the coast of the Versila which, since the High Middle Ages had been nothing more than a wood owned by feudal Lords in constant rivalry with each other.

On 18 May, he added that he saw " nothing reconciliatory about the bill ," which he believed to be aimed at legalizing the Muanikau Accord, which had been proposed by George Speight in 2000.

Moray is reported to have declared that he aimed at nothing else than " the maintenance of the true religion.

On 18 May, he added that he saw " nothing reconciliatory about the bill ," which he believed to be aimed at legalizing the Muanikau Accord, which had been proposed by George Speight in 2000.

He also feels quite naked without a gun: during an enemy attack in 1987's The Plot of the Fuma Clan, Jigen was unarmed ( during a wedding ) yet instinctively reached back, grabbed at nothing, humorously aimed his empty hand and moved his trigger finger before realizing what he was doing.

The bill, which Chaudhry strongly opposes, is aimed at empowering a commission to compensate victims and pardon perpetrators of the 2000 coup, and is alleged by Chaudhry and other detractors to be nothing other than a legal mechanism for releasing supporters of the present government who have been convicted and imprisoned for their role in it.

Allmovie reviewer Hal Erickson also noted that the episode includes a joke aimed at viewers " who have nothing better to do with their time than pause their DVDs to catch the jokes they'd missed first time around.

Generally the air stream is thinner ( vibrating in more modes ), faster ( providing more energy to excite the air's resonance ), and aimed across the hole less deeply ( permitting a more shallow deflection of the air stream ) in the production of higher harmonics or upper partials.

Despite his reputation as a serious composer of large, complex musical structures, some of Brahms's most widely known and most commercially successful compositions during his life were small-scale works of popular intent aimed at the thriving contemporary market for domestic music-making ; indeed, during the 20th century, the influential American critic B. H. Haggin, rejecting more mainstream views, argued in his various guides to recorded music that Brahms was at his best in such works and much less successful in larger forms.

Urban's military involvement was aimed less at the restoration of Catholicism in Europe than at adjusting the balance of power to favour his own independence in Italy.

Experience in World War I led German military researchers to conclude that long-range aimed fire was less significant at typical battle ranges of 300 m. As mechanisms became smaller, lighter and more reliable, semi-automatic rifles, including the M1 Garand, appeared.

These groups generally advocate ( d ) revising the party's platform, eliminating or altering the membership statement, and focusing on a politics-oriented approach aimed at presenting libertarianism to voters in what they deemed a " less threatening " manner.

As regent, Henry II took actions which were aimed less at guardianship of his infant cousin and more at claiming the throne for himself.

During the crisis, Fidel Castro wrote Khrushchev a letter about the prospect that the " imperialists " would be " extremely dangerous " if they responded militarily to the Soviet stationing of nuclear missiles aimed at US territory, less than 90 miles away in Cuba.

* The CESG Claims Tested Mark ( CCT Mark ), which is aimed at handling less exhaustive assurance requirements for products and services in a cost and time efficient manner

There had been several unsuccessful attempts to replace or supplement the Beetle in the VW product line throughout the 1960s ; the Type 3, Type 4, and the NSU-based K70 were all less successful than the Beetle, though aimed at more upscale markets for which VW lacked credibility.

* Regulatory pruning: This is carried out on the tree as a whole, and is aimed at keeping the tree and its environment healthy, e. g., by keeping the centre open so that air can circulate ; removing dead or diseased wood ; preventing branches from becoming overcrowded ( branches should be roughly 50 cm apart and spurs not less than 25 cm apart along the branch framework ); and preventing any branches from crossing.

But unlike most of the counterparts of the day, her primary audience was aimed at teenagers, young adults, college students, and urban viewers ( who described themselves as " Generation X ") rather than the 25 + audience that advertisers were catering to, plus it was less sensational and tame compared to the other programs.

His task was urgent, for less than six months after James II's departure, England joined the war against France as part of a powerful coalition aimed at curtailing the ambitions of Louis XIV.

This is in conjunction to rules aimed to avoid confusion, which state that " the first and second letters or second and third letters of an identifier may not be duplicated with less than 200 nautical miles separation.

In May 2008 the magazine received a redesign, aimed at an older readership with a less poppy, more authoritative tone.

Buckingham's approach to the religious problem of the day was ' comprehension ', something less than religious tolerance but aimed at least at bringing in the Presbyterians among nonconformists to the Church of England by some peaceful form of negotiation and arrangement.

Campbell jettisoned some of the less popular planks in his 1996 platform, and aimed to make the party more welcoming of former Reform Party of British Columbia opponents such as MLA Richard Neufeld.

Thus, while land reform may be radical in nature, such as through large-scale transfers of land from one group to another, it can also be less dramatic, such as regulatory reforms aimed at improving land administration.

The type aimed for were not as big as the show Fox terrier and were usually less than.

Sometime in his twenties, Dante decided to try to write love poetry that was less centered on the self and more aimed at love as such: he intended to elevate courtly love poetry, many of its tropes and its language, into sacred love poetry.

... several laws have been enacted which have been more or less directly aimed at the Industrial Workers of the World.

The Sidekick iD was aimed at younger, less affluent customers.

According to Stevens, sensationalism brought the news to a new audience when it became aimed at the lower class, who had less of a need to accurately understand politics and the economy.

* Secondary modern schools ( secondary intermediate schools in Northern Ireland ) would train pupils in practical skills, aimed at equipping them for less skilled jobs and home management.

In the 1990s, Lin was in the " non-mainstream faction " that aimed to be less confrontational with the People's Republic of China than Lee Teng-hui.