Sentence examples for close to operations from inspiring English sources
Although nearly all of these interventions are described by those close to operations as "almost routine", several incidents reveal there is a risk of escalation because of the sheer volume of incidents.
If both the public, which is strongly behind the military, and the Pentagon itself, which has almost complete control over access to combat, turn against the news media, it could take months before any journalist came close to operations on the ground, the thinking goes.
Sherry McGee, the Apple Book Center owner, said that with the recession "sales were pretty much close to operation cost, and then after Sept. 11 they fell below $300-a-day 300-a-day we didn't have a cushion".
To get closer to operations, she went to work in 1990 for her dad, George Hatsopoulos '49, SM '50, ME '54, ScD '56, at his technology company Thermo Electron.
To be sure, the new CEO has the final say in hiring and firing, promotions, and compensation, but many of those decisions are, by necessity, in the hands of people closer to operations.
Companies such as Vector and Rocket Lab, which have already had test launches of their vehicles that are designed for even smaller payloads, seem closer to operation.
A plant in New Mexico that plans to slaughter horses to produce meat for human consumption moved a step closer to operation on Friday when the Agriculture Department said it would provide legally required inspection services.
Since then, I've had close to 95 operations and she's been by my side throughout.
Every day we have 200-300 people needing care mostly civilians rather than fighters with close to 1000 operations every month because of rockets and bombs.
