Sentence examples for might have operated from inspiring English sources

It made the move for many reasons, and some seem rational no matter how many of its competitors might have operated fraudulently.

The government has been gradually paving the way for the announcement since December, when it first admitted that its scientists might have operated "for personal profit".

Aspin suggests that the list might have operated on a "pay-to-play" model, charging women to be included, and that the handful of unflattering entries represent those who failed to settle their accounts.

The king has deepened ties with the United Arab Emirates, which is a force behind the regional campaign against Islamists of all stripes.Last September King Abdullah publicly joined America's coalition against IS, when a more discreet ruler might have operated behind the scenes.

"President Obama clearly reiterated the firm pledge he made in November 2013, after the Snowden affair, and which was repeated during the state visit [by Hollande] in February 2014, to end practices that might have operated in the past but which are unacceptable between allies.

We used this gene tree in subsequent analyses to detect whether non-neutral evolution might have operated on PCSK9.

Some saw the prosecution of the foundation primarily as evidence of anti-Muslim bias by the American government, while others suspected that the charity might indeed have operated as an overly politicized money funnel for Hamas in the 1990s.

I have thus spent a great deal of time lately thinking about whether and how art museums have operated, and might now operate, as "activist" institutions.

Few have operated without controversy.

In his book "Normal Accidents," the sociologist Charles Perrow argued that when complex technology meets large corporate and government hierarchies, lack of accountability will lead inexorably to destructive failures of systems that might have been operated safely.

A framing effect might have been operated in the current study to lead respondent to more socially desirable responses than at other times.