Sentence examples for back the operation from inspiring English sources

GE Capital revenue declined 8 percent, to $11.49 billion, reflecting the company's continuing efforts to pare back the operation.

A number of companies have tried listing subsidiaries on the public markets, with many having resorted to buying back the operation afterward.

It proved unnecessary to scale back the operation, however, because a young Saudi with special credentials arrived at an al Qaeda camp in Afghanistan.

To transfer troops from Iraq is not a likely option in the short term, as scaling back the operation there may turn out to be a rather prolonged affair.

"We don't have to rush to military solutions," said Nadeem al-Jabiri, a Parliament member from the Fadhila Party, a strong rival of Mr. Sadr's party that would have been expected to back the operation, at least on political grounds.

"The present coalition came into power with a remit to try to scale back the operation of the state, but it has struggled just as badly as the previous government.

But Thomas Manley, the health and safety officer for the firefighters union, said that safety was not the real reason for scaling back the operations.

And there has been considerable publicity surrounding the decision by United States Steel to drastically scale back the operations of Stelco, a Canadian steelmaker it acquired in 2007.

In 2008, a new entity, the Antioch College Continuation Corporation, made up of former university trustees, major donors and alumni leaders, emerged to take control of the purse strings and stopped backing the operation.

Germany backed the operation but isn't offering its own forces.

MQM head Altaf Hussain said, "I welcome this operation and I am glad that government is supporting the armed forces, those who have not backed the operation must realize that it is a matter of national security.