Sentence examples for bloody operations from inspiring English sources

In a succession of often bloody operations, the Syrian military has sent tanks and soldiers to the country's most restive areas.

After Zarqawi began his bloody operations in Iraq, in 2003, support for suicide bombings — the signature of Al Qaeda since the destruction of the American embassies in East Africa, in 1998 — plummeted in Islamic countries.

Musharraf, who came to power in 1999, has maintained a difficult and domestically unpopular alliance with Washington since 2001 and has deployed unprecedented numbers of troops on bloody operations to capture senior al-Qaeda figures.

In this unit documents were found indicating that it envisaged "traumatic, even bloody" operations against enemies of the previous centre-right government under Silvio Berlusconi.All of which makes it puzzling that Mr Prodi's government should have chosen to give General Pollari a public endorsement.

Inter-service rivalry was always a given, but the Navy side of things is almost understandable, at least from this distance, since it was the Navy's costly and bloody operations at Midway, in the Solomon Islands, and in the Philippine Sea that had at last secured a western position in the Pacific that would give the Twentieth Air Force room to operate.

The first of them, for American International Pictures (the exploitation studio long associated with Roger Corman productions), was the sensational Sisters, influenced by watching bloody operations conducted by his father, a Philadelphia surgeon, and initially inspired by reading about some Russian conjoined twins in Life magazine.

"That was the only success of this appallingly expensive and appallingly bloody operation".

To ease their conscience, the invaders predicted a swift, less bloody operation.

The rebels swept through this village in a bloody operation to settle scores with unarmed villagers.

It merely went underground after a bloody operation against it in 2009, and now carries out regular attacks against the Nigerian government.

Despite the high-profile and bloody operation to kill his sons, and the capture of many of the former regime's most senior figures, Saddam had proved elusive.