David Ecker, head of the IBIS unit at Isis, describes how scientists recently dispatched to Vietnam took several days to assess an apparent human-to-human bird flu infection with old-fashioned petri dish techniques.
Jaguars from France were dispatched to participate in several coalition campaigns in the 1990s, from the 1991 Gulf War to the 1999 Kosovo conflict.
To plug the military's immediate linguistic gaps, about one-quarter of the institute's 85 senior enlisted language instructors -- experts with 10 to 15 years experience -- have been dispatched to the field for several weeks or months at a time, whether as interpreters for interrogators interviewing prisoners at the American base in Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, or to assignments in Afghanistan.
White and his regiment were dispatched to the scenes of several strikes throughout West Virginia, where he performed as "a special representative" of the governor.
As it turned out, Sanogo had been dispatched to the U.S. for training several times.
After Treasury Secretary Timothy F. Geithner's tax troubles and public speaking blunders, Mr. Orszag was one of several officials dispatched to the airwaves, where he presented the administration's arguments with a combination of numerical analysis and boyish earnestness.
It is a measure of their concern that several executives were dispatched to Switzerland and spent two days trying unsuccessfully to calm the Jung family.
The firm won a contract to help design the Tucker '48, and Mr. Egan and several colleagues were dispatched to Chicago to work with Mr. Tremulis.
After quickly determining where the group was going, several workers were dispatched to the intended target; another squad headed to a nearby park, where a worker persuaded the dead teenager's friends to congregate.
Several officers were dispatched to James' house. .
The recruitment for the purpose was mostly made in Peshawar by commander Fazle Haq Mujahid and several groups were dispatched to Azerbaijan for different duties.
