Sentence examples for cancelled the operation from inspiring English sources

Mr Basyir also reportedly wanted to attack western interests in Singapore but cancelled the operation after many of his alleged operatives were arrested in November 2001.The immigration offences relate to the forging of letters to obtain residence permits after Mr Basyir returned from Malaysia in 1999, where he had fled 14 years previously to escape incarceration on subversion charges.

Within a week, German forces had exhausted themselves against the Soviets' deeply echeloned and well-constructed defences and, for the first time in the war, Hitler cancelled the operation before it had achieved tactical or operational success.

At 14 00, Iachino cancelled the operation and ordered the fleet to return to port.

Scheer became convinced the British knew his location, and so he cancelled the operation and returned to port.

The late head of French intelligence, SDECE, told me French President Francois Mitterand ordered him to kill Gaddafi, but then cancelled the operation - a bomb hidden in Gaddafi's aircraft - when Franco-Libyan relations improved.

In July 1942 1st Parachute Battalion was selected to participate in the Dieppe Raid, and got as far as being loaded onto transport aircraft before poor weather cancelled the operation; when the raid was planned for a second time the parachute battalion was removed because their deployment was too dependent on there being good weather on the day of the raid.

I was ready to cancel the operation.

"The problem here is it adds significant risk to the surgery," said Dr. Kane, who canceled the operation.

The lord mayor of Melbourne city council, Robert Doyle, also weighed in on Twitter, praising Victoria police for cancelling the operation.

"We fully support the decision by Victoria police to cancel the operation after the unfortunate and inappropriate characterisation by the Australian Border Force today," Noonan said.

It was a battle between two American admirals: one who wanted to cancel the operation and one who wanted to proceed as planned.