At first it meant hitting a spot at the center of a target with an arrow.

VOA: special.2009.09.20

The group's president, Namanga Ngongi, says many African governments are not meeting a target of spending ten percent of their national budgets on agriculture.

VOA: special.2009.11.17

Before the minie ball, few soldiers could hit a target more than thirty meters away.

VOA: special.2009.12.03

Officials would order all lights in a city turned off to make it difficult for enemy planes to find a target in the dark of night.

VOA: special.2009.11.15

He is aiming at a target far in the distance.

VOA: special.2010.07.25

"I think that our study points to ferroportin as a target for the development of cancer drugs.

VOA: standard.2010.08.05

"And again similar to what we saw in Baghdad in 2003 when the United Nations was targeted the U.N.has become a target for terrorism.

VOA: standard.2009.06.19

The U.S.support is credited with helping the Philippine government capture or kill key leaders of two Islamic insurgent groups in the country's southern islands, but the VFA has become a target for Filipino leftist and nationalist factions who want it scrapped.

VOA: standard.2009.11.12

But Vice President Joe Biden supports a proposal to narrowly target military efforts at al-Qaida, using unmanned aircraft and special forces.

VOA: special.2009.10.10

Earlier this week, he used a law called the Foreign Narcotics Kingpin Designation Act to target three Mexican drug organizations.

VOA: special.2009.04.18

Two teams take turns pushing stones weighing almost twenty kilograms towards a circular target drawn on the ice.

VOA: special.2010.02.10

He says the class action failed because it did not target a single action or policy by Wal-Mart.

VOA: special.2011.06.24

He said a successful gunfighter could not let fear or anything else force him to shoot too soon and miss the target.

VOA: special.2010.03.10

She was shot through the brain. Police believe she was the main target of the attack -- the first shooting of a member of Congress in more than thirty years.

VOA: special.2011.01.15

Everyone knows that ships are a favorite target of pirates.

VOA: special.2009.02.10

However,the target a satellite apparently exploded after it was launched.

VOA: special.2009.07.01