Sentences with phrase «aimed at guarding»

As the fight continues over the monetization of private information, the European Union will soon step into the ring with its new General Data Protection Regulation — a robust set of requirements aimed at guarding the personal information of all EU citizens.

Not exact matches

The rival Nets, having failed in their pursuit of Anthony, took aim at Jazz point guard Deron Williams, who had neither asked for a trade nor indicated a longing to leave Utah as a free agent in 2012.

The Heat spent periods in a full - court press, aimed at forcing Chicago's little - used reserve guards into turnovers.

Announcing his plans to withdraw the policemen on private guard duty, the IGP said, «In view of the current security challenges in the country, it has become expedient for the Nigeria Police Force to streamline the deployment of its personnel attached to political and public office holders, aimed at enhancing effective and efficient policing of the country.

Some argue that carefully targeted strikes against the regime's military assets — air defences, command and control centres, and bases of Assad's elite Republican Guards — could weaken the regime sufficiently to engage in meaningful talks aimed at a political settlement.

The East End DWI Task Force will conduct additional checkpoints aimed at cracking down on drunken an drug impaired drivers and boaters, Mr. Spota announced during a press conference at the U.S. Coast Guard station in Hampton Bays.

Crist offered his support in a brief interview as he waited for Obama to arrive at a U.S. Coast Guard station for a presidential visit aimed at boosting tourism in the Gulf region, which has suffered economically as a result of the BP oil spill — the worst in American history.

They «seem to be aimed at politically polarizing science and scientists, and that is the real danger we must guard against,» says Raghavendra Gadagkar, immediate past president of the Indian National Science Academy and an ecologist at the Indian Institute of Science in Bengaluru.

Better believe it: the movie caught me off guard by starting at the end, where we meet Miles Teller's character with a gun aimed at his head.

An impressionistic barrage of sexually frustrated prisoners grasping for each other and at themselves, their musculature bathed in chiaroscuro light as they lovingly move their hands down their bodies while they're watched by drooling, baton - wielding guards, Un chant d'amour is an all - consuming work of art that aims to liberate the viewer through erotic fantasy.

The biggest news, though, is that we're working with a number of major publishers (and important smaller ones) to provide a storefront that contains deluxe digital graphic novels aimed at the «real mainstream,» the audience for graphic novels that reads Maus or Fun Home or Dotter of Her Father's Eyes but would never think of going into a comic shop guarded by a dodgy life - size statue of She - Hulk... We think the immersive «lean back» experience that tablets provide, along with purchase ease - of - use and the ubiquitous availability that app stores provide, can, if handled right, create a sea change in the consumption of graphic novels — and, if we have our way, the whole thing will have absolutely * nothing * to do with superheroes.

Inflation remained slightly below the Fed's 2 % target rate through March 2017, so it seems that recent rate hikes are aimed at returning interest rates to a more typical historical range while guarding against future inflation.1 The Fed dropped rates to historic lows in 2008 to stimulate the slow economy.

The Belize Coast Guard held an official ceremony aimed at recognizing the participants of the Wonder Woman Challenge that was held on May 25 and 26.

Enemy fire can kill other enemies so lining up a shotgun shot aimed at you to take out a wave of guards is a viable, and useful, strategy.

These intransigent leaders at the Climate Change Conference evidently became so isolated from the family of humanity at the end of the last day of meetings that their unilateral, morally offensive «rear - guard action» in defense of selfish, irresponsible national aims crumbled, as is common with such unsavory efforts.

«While the provision is ostensibly aimed at protecting prostitutes from harm, it prevents them from taking measures that could reduce harm and at worst drives them into the hands of the very predators that the law intends to guard against.