Anything the enemy flew or floated was his target.

One of Greg's bombs hung up, and he was miles from the target before he could get rid of it.

The bobbing head was a poor target, so Matsuo shot him in the upper trunk.

An aggressor would use an agent against which there was a minimal naturally acquired or artificially induced immunity in a target population.

The target was Allied shipping -- a desperate effort to stave off the Allied invasion of Europe.

George Wittkowsky argued that Swift ’ s main target in A Modest Proposal was not the conditions in Ireland, but rather the can-do spirit of the times that led people to devise a number of illogical schemes that would purportedly solve social and economic ills.

In response to a neighbor's complaint that his target shooting endangered her children, he replied, " If that should ever happen, ma-da-me, we should ourselves be happy to get new ones with you " ( though he was not at all inclined to engage with females in the manner implied ).

The decision to target the Apollo 16 lunar landing for the highlands region of the Moon was made to obtain samples of the Descartes Formation and the Cayley Formation.

It was ultimately decided to target the Apollo 16 mission to the Descartes site.

It was announced early in 1983 with a fall introduction at the target price of $ 500 for plug-in AppleNet cards for the Lisa and the Apple II.

The intended target was not Ethernet, and it did not have 48-bit addresses to route.

In predicted fire the basic geospatial data of range, angle of sight and azimuth between a fire unit and its target was produced and corrected for variations from the ' standard conditions '.

Another target was Senator Ted Kennedy, parodied as " Senator O. Noble McGesture ," resident of " Hyideelsport.

The limitations of beam-riding guidance ( which was slaved to an optical sight on single seater fighters and a radar with night fighters ) restricted the missile to attacks against targets flying a straight course and made it essentially useless against a maneuvering target.

) The F-4 pilot launched the missile and then saw that the target was the B-52, which was hit.

One characteristic of the Missileer ancestry was that the radar sent it mid-course corrections, which allowed the fire control system to " loft " the missile up over the target into thinner air where it had better range.

Regulatory Arbitrage was used for the first time in 2005 when it was applied by Scott V. Simpson, a partner at law firm Skadden, Arps, to refer to a new defence tactic in hostile mergers and acquisitions where differing takeover regimes in deals involving multi-jurisdictions are exploited to the advantage of a target company under threat.

But it was not a secret that Bulgaria's target was the fulfilment of the never materialized Treaty of San Stefano signed after the Russo-Turkish War, 1877 – 78.

This target was irradiated with 35 MeV alpha particles for 6 hours in the 60-inch cyclotron at the Lawrence Radiation Laboratory, University of California, Berkeley.

The Herald American was printed in broadsheet format, and failed to target a particular readership ; where the Record American had been a typical city tabloid, the Herald Traveler was a Republican paper.

Strutt ( Sports and Pastimes ) suggests that the first player's bowl may have been regarded by the second player as a species of jack ; but in that case it is not clear what was the first player's target.

A few obvious target areas of great importance might be mentioned.

However, there is often great structural damage to the target, and because the depth distribution is broad ( Bragg peak ), the net composition change at any point in the target will be small.

Through his vast estates he was the richest man in England, and his great wealth, ostentatious display of it, autocratic manner and attitudes, enormous London mansion ( the Savoy Palace on the Strand ) and association with the failed peace process at Bruges combined to make him the most visible target of social resentments.

< BLOCKQUOTE > The border settlers in Israel, mostly refugees, people from Arab countries and survivors from the Nazi concentration camps, have, for years, been the target of (...) murderous attacks and had shown a great restraint.

From her attacks on ships, using a ramming prow to puncture target vessels below the waterline, the world thinks it a sea monster, but later identifies it as an underwater vessel capable of great destructive power, after the Abraham Lincoln is attacked and Ned Land strikes the metallic surface of the Nautilus with his harpoon.

Another point is that Zangara had been an expert marksman in the Italian Army ( though not with a pistol from a great distance ), and would presumably hit his target, so perhaps Cermak was the intended victim.

The distance to the target was so great that the men were lifted by three U. S. Marine Corps CH-53 Sea Stallion helicopters, escorted by 12 AH-1 Cobra gunships.

* NGC 1499: Also called California Nebula this emission nebula, discovered in 1884-85 by the American astronomer Edward E. Barnard, is a great target for astrophotographers.

Since Kubera's friend, Yama, is the obvious next target, Kubera tricks Sam, who has forgotten what a great warrior the fat old man was, and in a bout of Irish Stand-Down ( in which two men take turns hitting each other until one cannot continue ), knocks him out and prepares to flee on the giant bird Garuda.

This is a great innovation for beach users especially in Australia which is the company that produces this Marquees target market. 6

The origins of the PIAT can be traced back as far as 1888, when an American engineer by the name of Charles Edward Munroe was experimenting with guncotton ; he discovered that the explosive would yield a great deal more damage if there were a recess in it facing the target.

To break down this last stronghold, the guns of the Prussian V and XI corps, which had now come forward to the captured ridge of Elsasshausen, took the village as their target ; the great mass of infantry, now flushed with victory but in the direst confusion, encouraged by the example of two horse artillery batteries which galloped boldly forward to case-shot range, delivered one final rush which swept all resistance before it.

When the telescope is pointed at a target object, the angle of each of these axes can be measured with great precision, typically to seconds of arc.

This was a target of great scientific value, since it could provide an unambiguous way to measure the size of the astronomical unit, which was needed for the nascent field of interplanetary spacecraft.

They argue that the Washington Consensus has not, in fact, led to any great economic boom in Latin America, but rather to severe economic crises and the accumulation of crippling external debts that render the target country beholden to the First World.

Having started the season at CHF and providing a good target inside 50 for much of the year, Goodes was shifted into the midfield to great success.

On many occasions Jack does so at great personal expense, as those he thwarts subsequently target him and his loved ones.

Following the hoax the medical profession's gullibility became the target of a great deal of public mockery.

If the tree is of great importance to an area or town, ( i. e. veteran or ancient ) then an alternative solution to crown lifting would be to move the target or object so it is not in range.

When a very bright point of light ( and therefore very strong electron stream emitted by the photosensitive plate ) is captured, a great preponderance of electrons is ejected from the image target.

He was a great target of the hypermodern school, led by Richard Réti, Aron Nimzowitsch, and Savielly Tartakower, all of whom criticized his ideas as dogmatic.

This tactic invariably causes great emotional distress for the attorney employing the plan when they know that the target is most likely innocent.

Its stated aim was that " To develop great radio programming ... we need to know where the centre of our audience target is and be able to focus on it in all we do.