Sentence examples for handed operational from inspiring English sources

But when the US handed operational control to Nato – and withdrew combat aircraft – McCain criticised the administration.

Their longtime owner, Stan Kroenke, as a condition to his becoming majority owner of the N.F.L.'s St . LouisRams, handed operational control of the Nuggets and the N.H.L.'s Colorado Avalanche to his 30-year-old son, Josh, this summer.

Until 1997, the chancellor still had the final say when it came to deciding the cost of borrowing, but in one of its first moves after sweeping to victory in the May election, Tony Blair's Labour government handed operational independence to the Bank of England's newly created monetary policy committee (MPC).

The Iraqi authorities continue to insist that Baghdadi himself was incapacitated and had handed operational control to Afari after being badly wounded in an earlier strike - something the Pentagon has denied.

To counter the attack from the air, the United States Army Air Forces USAAFF) handed operational control of its XXIX Tactical Air Command and part of its Ninth Air Force, under the command of Major General Hoyt Vandenberg, to the RAF and Arthur Coningham.

Signs of his influence on Mr Gove's thinking emerged last week in the new minister's first speech on prison reform when he promised to hand "operational autonomy and genuine independence" to governors.

He handed over operational responsibility for Sea Shepherd's flagship anti-whaling mission to Brown, former leader of Australia's Greens party.

But his civilian opponents outmanoeuvred him a few weeks ago, when the Duma passed a law handing operational control of the army to the defence ministry and leaving the generals in charge only of strategy.

On the other hand, operational real-time seismic and/or geodetic analysis will be carried out independent of the tsunami data analysis.

On the other hand, operational real-time analysis of seismic/geodetic data would be carried out for estimating a tsunamigenic fault model.

After a nasty public fight, BP was forced to hand over operational control of the venture to its Russian partners, although it continues to reap vast profits from it.