1.   In this case, it meant that no one was killed, and the apparent target was a man described in the newspapers as a local thug.

2.   Penna, the apparent target of the fusillade, was asleep in his basement apartment when the shots were fired, Ms. Bazydlo said.

3.   The apparent target of the Nablus raid was a Palestinian Authority security building where Mahmoud Abu Hanoud, the reported mastermind of several Hamas bombings, was being detained.

4.   The other victim, and the apparent target of the gunman, was Harry Carter, the owner of the brownstone.

5.   We talk to some of those who were her apparent targets.

6.   Police were still trying to determine how many of the victims were military personnel riding in the van that was the apparent target.

7.   A U.S. official, speaking on condition of anonymity, said the apparent target was Washington.

8.   An attack in Colombo last month killed five people but missed its apparent target, the prime minister.

9.   Four big detonations were heard at mid-morning in Pristina, with a military barracks the apparent target.