aim something at someone

Examples of aiming

aiming

In English, many past and present participles of verbs can be used as adjectives. Some of these examples may show the adjective use.

Aiming at this requirement, this paper presents the design and implementation of a software architecture for a reconfigurable real-time multiprocessing system for multi-robot control.
In this view, what an agent intends depends on how the agent conceptualizes her action, specifically, on what she says she was aiming at.
Two alternative scenarios were simulated aiming at improved energy self-reliance in the organic cash crop farms.
Their interactive alignment model is ambitious, aiming to explain the converging behavior of dialogue partners via both intra- and interpersonal priming.
Again, this aim was growth-related - aiming to raise corporate profits after tax, and thus increase industrial investment and innovation.
A watershed development program aiming at recharging aquifers, facilitating sustainable groundwater use, is the focus of this study.
We believe the strategy aiming for univentricular repair should be warranted.
Local councils have had to operate in different and challenging ways when aiming to purchase, rather than provide, support services for older people.
At this stage, aiming at perfection is not essential.
He argues that burlesques are at their most telling when aiming their satire at the very 'summit' of their culture.
The programme combines general music activities, aiming at the development of general musical skills, with piano lessons in small groups.
If one argues that the indirect nature of the aiming task required ventral stream involvement, it follows that the ventral stream can operate very rapidly.
They also suggest that results from more classical analyses of population demography, aiming, for example at estimating population size, should be interpreted with caution.
In a work evidently aiming to be definitive such blemishes should be ironed out in subsequent editions.
Information retrieval and information-filtering systems are applicable in order to minimize search difficulties, aiming to aid the user in the search for worthwhile information.
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