Sentence examples for daring operations from inspiring English sources

In the past two years, it was credited abroad for the killings of Hezbollah's military chief, as well as a key security adviser of Syria's president and an Iranian nuclear scientist – all daring operations, carried out deep within enemy territory.

Mr. Panetta's Abbottabad collection also includes a photograph of him at the C.I.A. just after he was told that the Seals had safely made it back to their base — he looks relieved — and had completed one of the most daring operations in the agency's history.

During World War I he received the Victoria Cross, the Distinguished Service Order, the French Croix de Guerre avec Palmes and the United States' Navy Cross for a series of daring operations he conducted while serving in the Royal Navy during the War at Sea. Stuart's Victoria Cross was awarded following a ballot by the men under his command.

Galen performed many daring operations, including brain and eye surgery, which were illegal in Rome at the time.

Hitler took a close personal interest in this daring operation.

Eventually, the scientists and crew were rescued by Soviet pilots in a daring operation, widely trumpeted in the Soviet news.

And now he and his brother were about to attempt the most daring operation in medical history.

But his notes and designs were lost in a flood, leaving modern engineers unsure of the exact mechanics of the daring operation.

In the Korean War, for instance, the Americans lost the initiative in the beginning, took it back with a dramatic and daring operation, and then lost it again, finally fighting to a blood-soaked stalemate.

Within minutes, the daring operation ended in the death of Mr. Sabaya, the capture of several of his confederates and a triumph in the campaign against terrorism far from Afghanistan.

In a statement circulated on social media, Isis said it took control of western neighbourhoods and forced the regime's troops to retreat to the city centre, seemingly in shock at what the militants described as a "daring operation".