Sentence examples for held operation from inspiring English sources

Think back to this summer, when the Army held Operation Dragon Spear, a big airborne assault exercise, and went to great lengths to publicize it.

Furthermore, as a privately held operation, we don't have to answer to the gnomes of Zurich, the trolls of Wall Street or anyone else who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing!

According to our contact, the closely held operations were directed at the Politburo Standing Committee level". 1 2 Next Page » James Glanz reported from New York, and John Markoff from San Francisco.

Mr. King, who called the bomb plot "one of the most tightly held operations I've seen in my years in the House," said he was told that government officials planned to investigate the source of the original leak.

While several government-owned companies in China, including Minmetals, have purchased foreign companies, those deals have usually involved small, privately held operations rather than a large, publicly traded corporation like Noranda.

General Greene then took command at Parris Island and later Camp Lejeune before returning to Washington, where he held operations, training and planning positions and served as chief of staff under General Shoup, whom he succeeded as commandant on Jan . 1 , 1964

At the time, Representative Peter T. King, a New York Republican who is the chairman of the House Homeland Security Committee, said that the leak was particularly troubling because the plot was "one of the most tightly held operations I've seen in my years in the House".

According to our contact, the closely held operations were directed at the Politburo Standing Committee level.

An Australian contingency held operations for a hospital and water purification plant in Chibuto to assist potentially affected populations.

It was more of a holding operation than a fightback.

"Who do you encourage to do this important public service if its just a holding operation?