Sentence examples for earth operations from inspiring English sources

"In the 1980s, U.S. public and covert support for Central American militaries implicitly gave them permission to pursue scorched earth operations against their enemies without fearing a backlash from Washington," Kate Doyle, a researcher at the National Security Archive, told HuffPost in an email.

According to John DeSio of The Village Voice, the May 10 , 2008protests were referred to as "Operation Fair Game Stop", and National Nine News has reported that the full title of the May 10 protests is "Battletoad Earth: Operation Fairgame Stop".

The government responded by arming the Janjaweed, paying them and giving them helicopter support in scorched-earth operations intended to empty the countryside.

Take, from the American media industry this time, Jonathan Miller, the down-to-earth operations man who is taking over the role at AOL that dangerously exciting Bob Pittman once filled (see article).

General Ríos Montt, 86, seized power in 1982 and ruled Guatemala for 17 months during a time when the army intensified its scorched-earth operations in the Mayan highlands to flush out leftist guerrillas.

Mr. Ríos Montt, 86, seized power in March 1982 and ruled over Guatemala for 17 months during a time when the army intensified its scorched-earth operations in the Mayan highlands to try to flush out leftist guerrillas.

But Chinese rare earths operations have halted shipments to Japan for the last three days anyway in response to strong warnings Tuesday from Beijing officials against selling to Japan, industry executives said.

But Chinese rare earths operations have halted shipments to Japan for the last three days anyway in response to strong warnings on Tuesday from Beijing officials against selling to Japan, industry executives said.

The shuttles, which have been working in space since 1981, cannot fulfil that role because their systems restrict them to near-Earth operations.

It used janjaweed -- or horse-riding militias -- to carry out scorched-earth operations against civilian population centers in Darfur.

"He's going to put together a scorched-earth operation.