Examples of 'were the targets' in a sentence

Meaning of "were the targets"

were the targets: This phrase indicates that specific individuals or entities were the focus of attacks, criticism, or actions directed toward them. It suggests that those mentioned were the intended subjects of a particular activity or event

How to use "were the targets" in a sentence

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were the targets
Buildings were the targets of the terrorist attacks.
Several collective centres were the targets of attack.
Women were the targets for these evil men.
Employers and employees alike were the targets.
Police also were the targets of gunfire yesterday.
Clearly the first two victims were the targets.
So these residues were the targets for potential modification.
There was no immediate word on who or what were the targets.
Those four were the targets.
They were the targets the Palestinians were aiming for.
We do not know if those were the targets.
They were the targets.
Bunty Sharma and his companion were the targets.
We were the targets.
Persons with western wives also were the targets of persecution.

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Black women were the targets of abuse by their white slave masters.
It is possible that some of these vessels were the targets of the pirate attacks.
These were the targets of American radicals long before.
The group can only conclude they were the targets to be mugged for their goods.
Eleven humans were caught into crossfire but the Taelons were the targets.
David and Robbie were the targets all along.
Police did not disclose whether Coke or the three men were the targets.
We gay people were the targets of his own Inquisition.
Offices of the Pakistani government were the targets this time.
Firemen were the targets at the high-rise as well.
Members of the LGBT community were the targets.
Several of those killed today were the targets of extrajudicial execution by the occupying Power.
The people of Iraq and Syria were the targets.
What were the targets for the reporting period?
Support, humanization and better care were the targets.
Men, women and children were the targets of the occupation forces.
What were the targets of the Department of Canadian Heritage for the reporting period?
Alternately ostracized and scapegoated, they were the targets of continual humiliation.
Some were the targets of personal revenge, framed and falsely accused.
Actually, you and Teoman were the targets.
You mean WE were the targets me and my colleagues?
And Klein told me the family 's children were the targets of death threats.
They were the targets for Massoud 's counterattacks.
During colonial times, Javan rhinos were the targets of trophy hunters.
These were the targets of Orcus, the God of Death.
He and his wife, Lynda Clugston Webster, were the targets of a Jamaican lottery scam.
How were the targets defined?
Clarke, you and Lexa were the targets.
How well were the targets set reached?
Those officers were not wrong place, wrong time . They were the targets.
The city and its suburbs were the targets of wide-scale attacks by the Russian military.
They were conducting a direct-fire anti-tank exercise in late March - the tanks were the targets.
Nine Boston-area schools were the targets of similar threats on Friday.
O Were the targets meaningful, realistic and attainable?
Iydd and Ramleh, two adjoining Arab towns close to Tel Aviv, were the targets.

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